Deliver on time and improve communication with the business to minimize project failure. Your Challenge The Agile evangelists are having trouble converting others to the Agile philosophy. Your team is facing pressure to deliver projects in a smaller time frame. The Waterfall approach is causing projects to go over budget, misunderstanding of project owners’ expectations, and late delivery to the end-customer. Projects that get implemented successfully may be susceptible to problems as the software gets older and crucial changes are too expensive. A consolidation roadmap that is based on an easy-to-implement method will ease the burden on resource and infrastructure maintenance. Our Advice Critical Insight Agile is not suitable for all organizations, or all projects. Carefully select pilot projects that have the greatest chance of success and determine the right requirements or risk significant cost overruns to fix problems or roll back development. An Agile rollout may require peripheral projects to be accelerated. Agile will modify internal roles and processes. Get ready for change management. Impact and Result Agile will improve communication and transparency between teams and stakeholders, which will lead to higher quality products and fluid team dynamics. The success of the Agile pilot should be used to build the case for an organizational-wide deployment. In order for your organization to stay competitive, it must place focus on delivering projects at a quicker pace with the right features.

1. Implement Agile Practices That Work
Deliver on time and improve communication with the business to minimize project failure.
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Your Challenge
The Agile evangelists are having trouble converting others to the Agile philosophy.
Your team is facing pressure to deliver projects in a smaller time frame. The Waterfall approach is causing projects to go over budget, misunderstanding of project owners’ expectations, and late delivery to the end-customer.
Projects that get implemented successfully may be susceptible to problems as the software gets older and crucial changes are too expensive.
A consolidation roadmap that is based on an easy-to-implement method will ease the burden on resource and infrastructure maintenance.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Agile is not suitable for all organizations, or all projects. Carefully select pilot projects that have the greatest chance of success and determine the right requirements or risk significant cost overruns to fix problems or roll back development.
An Agile rollout may require peripheral projects to be accelerated.
Agile will modify internal roles and processes. Get ready for change management.
Impact and Result
Agile will improve communication and transparency between teams and stakeholders, which will lead to higher quality products and fluid team dynamics.
The success of the Agile pilot should be used to build the case for an organizational-wide deployment.
In order for your organization to stay competitive, it must place focus on delivering projects at a quicker pace with the right features.
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Amerinet
Pacific Blue Cross
Organization in the medical industry
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Best Practices Toolkit
Assess organizational readiness Understand whether Agile will solve the organization’s communication and process management problems.
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Agile Readiness Assessment Tool
Assess pilot appropriateness Determine which projects are most suited to an Agile approach.
Rollout the pilot project Experience processes and challenges with your pilot project by leveraging a Scrum baseline.
Measure and communicate success Analyze how sprint burndown velocity changed and review the pilot project.
Prepare for a wider rollout Determine an approach for organizational-wide rollout and amend the Scrum process to fit individual teams.
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Guided Implementation
This guided implementation is a four call advisory process.
Call #1: Assess the readiness of your organization Identify if your organization’s team, management, technology, and culture is prepared to transition to Agile. Info-Tech analysts will help you interpret your gaps and propose ways to fill these gaps.
Call #2: Choose the right pilot project Identify a pilot project to gauge the implications of Agile on your team and organization based on complexity, duration, importance, and ownership. Info-Tech analysts will help you find the project that will garner the most benefits and
lessons.
Call #3: Rollout your Agile pilot Prepare and execute sprint sessions for your selected pilot project and track its progress with KPIs and metrics. Info-Tech analysts will discuss your experiences and techniques to help alleviate unexpected pain points.
Call #4: Prepare for a wider rollout Take the lessons learned to amend your Agile process to fit an organization-wide implementation. Info-Tech analysts will discuss approaches to improve your Agile strategy to include different teams and projects within your organization.