In a previous post, we talked about the benefits of team surveys as a method of driving improvement. In this article we take a look at a tool that can be used create these surveys and collect the data needed to identify opportunities for teams to improve their basic agile delivery capabilities. Agile delivery capability…
If an organization is not agile at a basic team level, it’s going to be really difficult to build an agile enterprise. Teams are the basic building block of an organization, and an organization built on a foundation of dysfunctional teams is certain to be failing. Development of products and services by such teams are…
“Change is not mandatory. Neither is survival”. W. Edwards Deming Agile Transformation is a means to an end. Agility is an enabler. Organizations expect that Agile Transformation will deliver improvements in delivery cycle times, reduce costs, improve product quality, enable faster strategy pivots and create more satisfied customers. However, many transformation initiatives become protracted, expensive,…
Measurable Business Outcomes Agility is not a set of methods or practices or frameworks. Adopting Scrum or SAFe does not guarantee you will deliver products to market any faster. Many organizations are “doing agile” but not realizing the sought after business outcomes. Agile transformations are expected to be more than just incremental improvements to performance….
In the most recent State of Agility Survey Report, the majority of respondents cite Accelerate Software Delivery as the most important driver for agile transformation. Many organizations attempt agile transformations by adopting practices like Scrum or Kanban, and may even embrace scaling frameworks like SAFe, LeSS, and the like. They hire people to train and…
Agile Delivery At Scale Series Part 1: The Scaling Challenge Part 2: Organizing for Scaled Delivery Part 3: Scaling the Product Backlog Part 4: Delivery Planning and Execution at Scale Summary This post is part 1 of a 5-part series that discusses the challenges of scaled agile delivery. Non-proprietary solutions are proposed that emphasize simplification…
What are the challenges in building a culture where everyone is engaged in continuous and sustained improvement? First, an organization’s leadership must be strong (and united) advocates for agile transformation and must communicate expectations that improvement is a fundamental part of everyone’s job – or as Deming once said: “Improvement is not mandatory – neither…