Adapting your Agile Enterprise for a better Year ahead!
Blog: Agile Adoption Roadmap
A New Year is upon us! What is in store for 2018? Better yet, what changes might you apply for a better Agile transformation and better business outcomes? Here are a few to consider.
Focus more (much more) on the Agile mindset and the Agile values and principles. Without this, people aren’t quite sure whey they are implementing the Agile mechanics (practices and tools). Ask your employees if they know why they are applying the Agile methods and practices. If they don’t really know, more strongly relate them to the Agile values and principles.
Place Coaches high enough in to make a difference. Placing them too low in an organization will give them little or no influence to change anything that matters. Gauge your current placement of Agile Coaches and determine if they have the right access and influence to leadership.
Ensure leaders in your organization are educated in Agile. Provide a combination of the Agile values and principles and Agile concepts, mindset, and practices that will help them support and lead an Agile transformation. This includes understanding and establishing a high performing Agile workplace.
Focus on the employee side of Agile and what it takes to build a high performing team. This includes establishing psychological safety, demonstrating servant leadership, creating a culture of self-organizing teams and even self-management, introducing continuous peer-to-peer feedback loops, and more.
Become totally customer-value driven. Stop doing Agile for Agile’s sake and focus on the customer benefits. Bring a customer mindset to Agile. This means more closely identify with your customers (e.g., personas) and capture and apply more customer feedback along the way.
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