This document discusses using an "Agile Flight Path" analogy to help organizations plan and monitor their enterprise-wide agile transformations. It describes agile adoption as having distinct stages like taxiing, take-off, climbing, and cruising, with initiatives in areas like scrum practices, engineering practices, and culture change. A chart shows the broad areas to address and expected progression over time. The Agile Flight Path is also used like a kanban board to visually track each project team's stage of agile adoption based on a self-assessment instrument.

1. Agile Flight Path
for Enterprise Agile Transformations
Jul 2015
Vishu Hegde
vishu@pm-powerconsulting.com

2. Enterprise Agile Transformation
 In our consulting/coaching engagements with several
organizations on Agile Transformation, we have seen
that organizations struggle to have a roadmap for the
enterprise-wide transformation and scaling up
 What all the areas to address?
 Where to begin?
 What are the sequence of initiatives/activities to take up?
 How to monitor progress of overall transformation?
 Agile Flight Path analogy has been useful in these
contexts both for the Scrum teams and for the
management team
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3. Typical Agile adoption journey
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Release, Sprint cycles
Structure (Scrum Teams, Roles)
Scrum practices, artifacts
Engineering Practices
Culture change (behaviors, collaboration, self-organizing)
Value,Maturity
 This chart shows the broad areas to address and what to
expect over a time line during the Agile transformation
journey
Data driven practices (sizing, velocity,…)
Change takes
time; Needs
perseverance

4. Agile Flight Path
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Taxiing Runway
Take-off
Climbing
Cruising
Orbit change
Scrum
Practices
Engineering
Practices
Data driven
Practices
Culture
change
Scrum Team
Structures in
place
Product Backlog,
Release Planning,
Sprint Planning
done
Sprint 0
activities
started
Scrum
ceremonies
happening

5. Agile Flight Path – Kanban Board
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Taxiing Runway
Take-off
Climbing
Cruising
Orbit change
Scrum
Practices
Engineering
Practices
Data driven
Practices
Culture
change
Proj1
Proj4
Proj8
Proj2
Proj5
Proj3
Proj9
Proj6
Proj7
Agile Flight Path is used like a Kanban
board to indicate the enterprise wide
Agile adoption progress – which
projects are in which stage. An
assessment instrument is used to
characterize the adoption stages.
Project teams do the self-assessment
using this instrument.

6. Thank You