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Agile Transformation
The document discusses agile transformation, emphasizing its significance in changing work dynamics and aligning internal processes with external challenges. Key points include the necessity of a clear vision, strategic alignment, and fostering a culture that supports continuous learning for successful adoption and scaling of agile practices. It also highlights common misconceptions about agile methodologies and the critical role of leadership in promoting a collaborative and innovative environment.
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Agile Transformation
- 1. Agile Transformation Tathagat Varma HeadStrategy & Operations, Walmart Labs Doctoral Candidate (EFPM 2019), ISB Hyderabad
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- 3. What is Agile? • Significantchange in nature of work! • Fundamentally impacts how we work. • Directed towards continuously re-adapting and constantly re-aligning: • Internal processes with external problems • Internal execution with external changes • Internal solution expertise with external domain complexity • Internal success drivers with external value measures • Tip: it’s just plain common sense applied to solving problems in business context, or simply the business sense J!
- 4. More formally “defined” by theAgile Manifesto, circa 2001…
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- 9. Measuring the success of org-wideagile initiatives?
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- 12. The State ofAgile Transformation in the Indian Subcontinent: Learnings from Change Agent Summit, 2018 Initiate Agile Adoption • Lack of Vision • Lack of Business Alignment • Internal Resistance Enable Agile Transformation • Setting Realistic Expectations • Providing Required Resources • Creating Safe Learning Spaces Scaling Agile Transformation • Creating a Shared Vision • Re-aligning Organization • Establish Consistency Sustaining Agile Transformation • Evolving a Culture • Establishing Boundaries • Enable Continuous Learning https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/experience-reports/the-state-of-agile-transformation-in-the-indian-subcontinent/
- 13. How Not! • Newtitles ≠ Agile • Tools ≠ Agile • Scrum ≠ Mini-Waterfall • Scrum ≠ Agile • Doing rituals ≠ being agile • SAFe ≠ Scaling • Coach ≠ Capability • Agile ≠ Panacea!
- 14. So, what is agile then???A Mindset The Culture An Operating System
- 15. Role of LeadershipShifting from reactive to creative mindsets • From certainty to discovery: fostering innovation • leading more with asking questions versus advocating your opinion • listening deeply, with a focus on what you might be missing • creating space to pause and reflect • From authority to partnership: fostering collaboration • taking responsibility for what is yours • reviewing your role and clarifying expectations with others • surrounding yourself with people who think differently from you • From scarcity to abundance: fostering value creation • identifying new opportunities and unmet needs — • exploring how to provide more value to attract the resources you need — • seeking win–win outcomes based on contribution and cocreation Source: Leading agile transformation: The new capabilities leaders need to build 21st-century organizations, McKinsey, Oct 2018
- 16. The journey is thereward… Agile is not a destination!