The document discusses assessing the need for an organization to transform to an Agile approach. It lists several points to consider including issues with the current software development approach, whether time to market is helping achieve revenue targets, customer satisfaction, and product quality. Additional factors include gaps between product management and development teams, productivity losses from rework, and whether the current feedback loop can keep up with market fluctuations. If the assessment finds these issues exist, the document states it is time for an Agile transformation, which can help solve such problems through its simplified frameworks and collaborative, small team approaches.

1. AGILE
TRANSFORMATION
APPROACH

2. Any organization that would like to shift to Agile has to assess the need of the transformation.
T H E AS S E S S M E N T S H O U L D I N C L U D E T H E F O L L O W I N G P O I N T S :
• A r e t h e r e a n y i s s u e s wi t h t h e c u r r e n t s o f t wa r e d e v e l o p m e n t a p p r o a c h ?
• I s t h e c u r r e n t t i m e t o m a r k e t h e l p i n g t h e o r g a n i z a t i o n a c h i e v e t h e r e v e n u e
t a r g e t s ?
• A r e t h e c u s t o m e r s o f t h e o r g a n i z a t i o n h a p p y wi t h t h e p r o d u c t s ?
• A r e t h e p r o d u c t s t h a t a r e b e i n g d e l i v e r e d h a v i n g e x p e c t e d q u a l i t y ?
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3. • A r e t h e r e a n y g a p s b e t we e n t h e p r o d u c t m a n a g e m e n t a n d s o f t w a r e
d e v e l o p m e n t t e a m s ?
• I s t h e r e p r o d u c t i v i t y l o s s d u e t o c o n s i d e r a b l e a m o u n t o f r e w o r k o n t h e
d e l i v e r e d p r o d u c t s ?
• I s t h e c u r r e n t f e e d b a c k l o o p n o t wo r k i n g t o c a t c h u p wi t h m a r k e t
f l u c t u a t i o n s ?
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4. I F Y E S
T h e n i t i s t i m e t o m o v e t o A g i l e t r a n s f o r m a t i o n .
Agile can help solve most of these issues in a positive way due to its simplified frameworks, engineering
practices, collaborative way of working among product teams and development teams, small and co-
located teams, etc.
A S S E S S I N G T H E N E E D O F T H E T R A N S F O R M A T I O N T O A G I L E