An agile organization embraces agile values and mindsets throughout all ranks and teams. It constantly adapts its ways of working based on employee feedback and values responding to change over following a plan. The key features of an agile mindset are personal responsibility, open communication, appreciation for all, and being results and customer-oriented with flexibility. One way to develop a successful agile organization is through tools that support changes in processes like agile performance management and feedback sharing within self-managed teams.

2. What is an agile organization?
• An agile organization is a human-centric organization that embraces an agile
culture, no matter the framework, may be called agile if, throughout its ranks and
teams, an agile mindset and agile values drive the delivery of customer value.
These organizations constantly adapt their ways of working based on employee
feedback. They value responding to change over following a plan, delivering
iterative and incremental value to the customer often.

3. The agile mindset is characterized by features and
principles such as:
Personal
responsibility of
each team member
Open
communication
with one another
Appreciation and
fairness for all
Result and
customer-
oriented thinking
and action
Flexibility

4. • One of the keys to developing a
successful agile organization is having
access to the right tools to support the
changes you will be implementing
throughout the process. Factorial’s all-in-
one HR management software is one such
solution. You can use the various features
to manage all aspects of your agile
organization. This includes managing
more agile performance management
processes and sharing feedback within
self-managed teams. You can also use it
to improve each stage of the employee
experience.

5. The Agile Business
Business agility is a company’s collective ability to adapt and respond rapidly to ever-changing market conditions. At Scrum
Alliance, we believe successful business agility must be sustainable, which requires cultural innovation at all levels and in all
departments of your organization.

6. Why do businesses use agility?
Increases Your ROI
Minimizes Risk to Encourage Innovation
Improves Your Time to Market
Ensures Your Product Iterations Deliver Customer
Value
Enhances Employee Morale and Retention

7. The Benefits of Business Agility

8. Top 3 Predictors of Business Agility
*the 2020 Business Agility Report: Special Edition analysis reinforced that relentless improvement, funding models, and value
streams remain the top three key predictors of business agility.

9. Beginning in 2016, Best Buy Canada radically shifted its approach
to delivering value in eCommerce to Technology. Through the use
of an iterative agile methodology instead of a linear “waterfall”
process, and by shifting its focus from projects to products, the
company significantly improved its ability to release new code to
production and gained speed and efficiencies throughout its
eCommerce sector. Capitalizing on this capability, company
leaders estimate a $40M reduction per year in cost of value
delivery in addition to the improved time to market, increased
incremental revenue, and more robust revenue protection.
The company pushed decision making to cross-functional teams
focused on specific product areas and developed the capacity to
rapidly iterate, breaking a pattern of producing two or three major
releases and a handful of minor ones each year. In the first six
months of 2019 alone, the teams released 85 net new features on
eCommerce and technology at large within the organization.
Case for Business Agility

10. Sustainable Business Agility in Practice
• At a macro level, agility’s short solution-development cycles act as early warning systems for a
project that's misaligned with market or customer needs. This allows you to identify projects
likely to fail and terminate them earlier in the development cycle. By doing so, you reduce project
portfolio costs and lower the risk of developing a product that will fail in the marketplace.

11. • Never underestimate the power of the positive influence of always getting things done —
agilists swear by it. That’s how agility also lowers internal risks: When your employees
are members of self-managed teams, they feel more engaged in their work and share
collective responsibility for delivering high-quality results rapidly, which leads to a
greater sense of job satisfaction, better deliverables, and a lower turnover rate. When you
make the people you have happier, it improves customer satisfaction, period. The secret to
success for any business is customer loyalty, which translates to how your business
handles customer service, as well as selling topnotch products and services. When your
company is agile and responds to customer needs, you improve your customer loyalty.
Co-Creating an Agile Culture

12. Untrained Executive Leadership
Lack of support and financial aid from the senior managers of the company makes it hard
for any transformation to occur. The problem is that one section will embrace agile
approaches, but soon everything will fizzle out since there is no broad support from the
company.
Lack of Enterprise View
This includes numerous considerations. For instance, the lack of a centralized program that
promotes agility in an organization. As a result, the implementation of agile becomes
problematic because it is less effective if it is only implemented in a limited number of
departments or teams.
Barriers to Business Agility