This document discusses why companies need to work agilely. Traditional project management approaches often fail to deliver value on time and on budget. Working agilely focuses on delivering value in small, frequent iterations through self-organizing teams. This allows companies to adapt quickly, reduce waste, and gain revenue earlier by delivering valuable features more predictably. Agile approaches help mitigate risks through inspection and adaptation at frequent intervals to validate assumptions and make rapid course corrections when needed. Coaching from Agile Arena can help organizations change their mindset and culture to work agilely through training, coaching services, and helping teams build high performance.

1. Why companies
need to work
Agile?
MONA SHOKROF
MONA RADWAN

2. Challenges
Technology became involved in all
business fields which introduced
complexity to software we build
Technologies change rapidly
and evolve to be in the
hands on any one

3. Challenges
Market competition became harder with a
large number of competitors and rapid
market changes

4. Need to Grow & Evolve
Organizations need to adapt to
change effectively otherwise they
will lose markets
Organizations need to learn a lot
of skills without losing focus of
their market and needs and with
harmony with the existing
functions

5. Problem
Does our mindset and culture help us to do so ?

6. Does our mindset and culture help us to
do so ?
30 - 40% of systems projects fail prior to completion
Half of all systems projects overrun their budgets and
schedules by 200% or more
64% of features are rarely or never used
From:
B.P. Lientz and K.P. Rea, Breakthrough Technology Project Management
Standish Group Study Report, 2002

7. Problems in traditional mindset
Less flexibility to adapt to market changes
Late Revenue
Reduced performance
Locked in waste
Increased time to market
Decreased likelihood of meeting the business or market needs
Includes a lot of risk due to uncertainty and change

8. Project challenges
Having an unvalidated vision, thus building the wrong thing
Lack of information in the beginning of the project
Inaccurate estimates and plans
Unplanned changes

9. Risk mitigation in traditional way
Buffering
Huge Upfront cash
Excess planning activities
Building Extra Features
Focus on idle workers not
idle work (increase work
in process WIP)

10. Result
Big and Long investment
Less flexible to adapt to changes
Less accurate to meet client needs
Wasteful risk mitigation
Increased probability of failure

12. Better way - Working Agile
Focus on working effectively in small chunks which allows the
organization to provide value early and get revenue early
Help to validate assumptions early and manage uncertainty by learning
from feedback .
Focus on having a mature process and team through project lifetime
which eliminates waste and reduce risk
Resulting in increased ROI for the project

13. How ? Value driven approach
Finish the most valuable work early ? 80% of value in 20% of features
Get value early , so income early

14. How ? Work in chunks
Buffering
Huge Upfront cash
Excess planning activities
Building Extra Features
Focus on idle workers not
idle work (increase work
in process WIP)

15. How ? Inspect and Adapt
Build a mature process which suits
your teams by frequent inspecting
for problems and challenges and
adapting to solve them .
Build a self organizing teams
through continuous learning and
improvement and effective
communication.
Validate your assumptions early
and often through valuable output
and reliable feedback process

16. Increase ROI
Waste Reduction
Get Value early , get income
early
Get Value with less effort and
time , so less cost
Value and expenses with the
same present value
Ability to invest in high value
features more with less cost of
changing plans
Traditional
Agile
Income
Expenses

17. Management Flexibility
Real Value measurement
Fail Fast or stop early
Create options
Rapid course correction
Decide to stop on invest more in certain projects

18. Traditional vs. Agile Approach
• Big and Long
• Less Accurate
• Less Flexible
• Increases risk of failure
• Less management control
• Wasteful
• Small and short
• More predictable
• Iterate every 2-4 weeks
• Increases probability of success
• Active management control and
influence
• Eliminate overhead and
unnecessary features

19. What Agile Arena can offer ?
Changing Mindset and culture through practical training and coaching service.
Help overcoming challenges not only with technical teams , but all the
surrounding challenges that blocks the organizational learning .
Inspecting Organization problems and work on it .
Help teams with the agile practices and techniques and close engagement in
day to day activities.
Coach specific qualifications needed for the teams , some for agile adoption
roles like scrum master and product owner ,other for technical practices that
are important for agility
Coaches the teams to build high performing teams and working on individual
and collaboration issues

21. Thank You
mona.radwan@agilearena.net
mona.shokrof@agilearena.net
Agile Adoption Services
Training Coaching Assessment
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