This document discusses how to make an agile transformation successful. It notes that while many companies now practice agile to some degree, fully transforming is challenging. Key tips include having aligned vision and leadership buy-in, creating a cultural shift, allowing proper time for planning and change, ensuring the transformation meets business needs, focusing on outcomes over rigid frameworks, adapting contracts, and reworking governance. The road to successful agile transformation is difficult but critical for companies to adapt to changing times.

1. Make your Agile Transformation Successful
Va rg h e s e D a n i e l
A g i l e N e t w o r k I n d i a
Tr i v a n d r u m C h a p t e r

2. Traditional
companies are
designed and
operated to
withstand
disruption waves
…

3. … in the current
century,
companies need
to ride
disruptive waves
and re-invent
themselves

4. Transforming to an Agile Operating
Model
Agile
Transformation
It is a new way of working
enabling an organization to
be more nimble, more
focused on business value,
more attractive to talent,
drive better outcomes and
achieve faster time-to-
market when delivering
(technology enabled)
products/propositions

5. Touches many aspects – people, processes,
technology, structure etc.
Agile
Transformation
Leadership
Process
Structure Technology
People
Talent
Communication
Culture
Budgeting
Performance Mgmt
Planning
Governance
Delivery Pipeline
Infrastructure
Architecture
Reporting
Team Size
Working agreements

6. The road to a successful agile transformation
is not an easy one
Agile
Transformation
“97 percent of respondents surveyed practice
agile to some degree within their organization.
However, only practicing the methodology to
some degree, is one of the most detrimental
mistakes enterprises make; hindering the
chances of a genuinely successful
transformation. The number of obstacles that
stand in the way of enterprises achieving
desired results is exponentially higher than
those faced by start-ups. ”
VersionOne - 13th Annual State of Agile Report

7. Tips to make Agile Transformation Successful

8. Vision, Strategy and Leadership
• Aligned understanding of the goals across the organization
• Leadership buy-in and commitment
• Driven and supported by Top leadership

9. Create a cultural change
• Top down – change the way leadership operates

10. Agile Transformation takes time
• Need proper planning and a roadmap
• Need people, leadership and support systems
• Infrastructure, tools and automation

11. Agile Transformation is a business need
• Start from business
• Involvement of business stakeholders
• Change in investment decisions
• Scope is not fixed but outcomes should be clear

12. “Doing the steps does not guarantee you the results”
• Agile transformation is not Scrum - do not get overly focused on a
framework
• Do not become rigid in how the frameworks are implemented

13. Model your contracts to support Agility
• Contracts based on MVP experience
• Optimizes value for both customer and supplier in short-term and
long-term

14. Rework the governance mechanism
• Review existing checks and balances – metrics, reports etc.
• Active Risk Management

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