Growing Agile
At agile42 we dislike the term scaling applied to agile, or better agility. The reason for our not liking it, is because it evokes metaphors which are bound to manufacturing such as: “scaling a plant”, “scaling production” and all the rest that can evoke assembling and building things.
Effectively establishing continuous improvement to an organization at large requires to develop quite some discipline, infrastructure and most of all openness and trust. Senior coaches Andrea Tomasini and Dhaval Panchal have spent a significant amount of time in analyzing data and cases from different case studies all around the world and the experience has been included in agile42 tools like the Enterprise Transition Framework™ (ETF) and the Agile Strategy Map™.
A snapshot of our approach is included in the new article Growing Agile… Not scaling! just published thanks to InfoQ. Some of the key topics discussed in the article:
- Why it is important to focus on growing your own agility instead of taking shortcuts and adopting someone else’s model
- Which role culture plays in an agile transition and effectiveness of organizational change
- How to make sure you are agile at heart, and move continuous improvement to an organizational level, to become a more agile organization
- How to leverage your organizational structure to better focus on customer value and deliver what is important to them
- How to increase your organization autonomy by decentralizing control and creating containers for empowerment