Business Agility: From a Transformation Program to a Business Capability
Do who want to bring agility to an entire organization but struggle with how to scale it enterprise-wide. By attending this session you will learn what are the key aspects and stakeholders to consider when embarking on a Business Agility transformation and how to establish the right guiding coalition and the appropriate roadmap for success.
Outline/Structure of the Talk
The presentation will discuss the strategy, consisting of 7 components, employed for the transformation:
- Sponsored Vision - Enterprise Agile adoption is a strategic issue. It requires organization-wide deep and persistent change. Hence, enterprise transformation requires clear executive sponsorship, a vision for Agile transformation crafted by the organization executive sponsor and shared with the whole organization.
- Transformation Enablement Team - The guiding body for enterprise Agile transformation, the one that takes the first and reinforcing steps and coaches, trains, mentors, and leads the rest of the enterprise in Agile adoption. This team decides which changes need to happen and when, the patterns that will be involved, and how those changes should be ordered.
- Delivery Teams - How do we transform a change target into an actual Delivery Team, which can become self-managing? The answer lies in the establishment of cadence and the empirical adoption of changes that appeal to good Agile patterns and practices. It is a cadence that allows stakeholders to systemically participate in Agile improvement.
- Transformation Backlog - The strategic vision for Agile change is implemented using a Transformation Backlog. This is an ordered list of changes.
- Actionable Metrics - The transformation initiative should be measured objectively. What we specifically care about, at all times, is the delivery of value. To this end, each change on the Transformation Backlog must be qualified in terms that include the intent and motivation for using it, along with the consequences that can be expected from its correct implementation. Each change item in the Transformation Backlog is given acceptance criteria for verifying its successful adoption by a targeted party.
- Validated Learning - Validated learning is the use of feedback to inform and improve future actions. It is important to improve an organization's ability to undergo an enterprise Agile transformation.
- Validated Roll-out Strategy - A validated transformation rollout strategy must be evaluated in terms of actionable metrics at least once every transformation heartbeat, and that it informs the revision of the transformation backlog. The validation or revision of the transformation strategy provides closure to each and every cycle of the validated learning loop.
The session will be structured:
0:00 - Intro, Background, and Context
0:04 - High-level intro to the 7 components of the transformation strategy
0:11 - Detailed discussion of each component (3 mins each)
0:34 - Q&A
0:44 - Close
Learning Outcome
- Address the key aspects and stakeholders to consider when embarking on a Business Agility transformation
- Establish the right guiding coalition and the appropriate roadmap for success
- Define the Vision, Mission, and elements that help a Business Agility CoE to ensure new capabilities are sustained over time
Target Audience
Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches
Prerequisites for Attendees
None.
Links
I am a CST and an Enterprise Agile Coach. This coaching technique was created by Michael Stanier. I have been using this technique for over a year now and have taught it to C-suite executives, org leaders, managers, etc. I am presenting this for the first time at a Wash DC area meetup Agile Professionals in March 2018.
I speak publicly very frequently on professional topics related to Agile/Scrum professionally. Additionally, as the co-founder of a 20-year-old civil rights organization (www.saldef.org), I speak publicly and have appeared on radio and broadcast TV such as CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, and NPR.
I am a seasoned speaker with the privilege of presented at various conferences including Agile2016, Global Scrum Gathering Bangalore 2016, AgileDC 2017, AgileDC 2016, AgileDC 2015. I am presenting at Global Scrum Gathering Minneapolis April 2018.
Here are links to 2 videos of my speaking:
http://youtu.be/m_-BF6KAB9U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buhbO2UyC2Q
Below is a select list of presentations delivered at events/conferences:
April 2017 - Agile in Government, Wash, DC Agile
Lean Summit, Harrisburg University, PA, May 2017
Lean-AgileDC, Wash, DC, May 2017 SWIFT Tech Day, Manassas, VA, Aug. 2017
AgileDC 2017, Wash, DC,
Oct 2017
AgileDC 2016, Wash, DC, Oct. 2016
Agile2016, Atlanta, GA, Aug. 2016
SG 2016 Bangalore, India, Jun. 2016
11/9/15 - Different Approaches to Scaling Agile, PMIWDC, Loudoun Com- munity Chapter (See: https://www.pmiwdc.org/2015/11/loudoun-community)
12/16/15 - Can EVM and Agile Co-exist?, PMIWDC Washington DC Chap- ter (See: https://www.pmiwdc.org/2015/12/pm-am-breakfasts)
11/2/15 - Spinning Stories the Agile Way, DC Scrum User Group (Scrum Al- liance), Washington Dc (See: http://www.meetup.com/DC-Scrum/events/226176799/?a=cr1_grp&rv=cr1&_af=
Jan. 2015 - How To Fail With Agile, Collaborate 2015 in Washington DC (See: http://collaborate.fosterly.com/workshops)
Oct. 13, 2014 - Agile Estimation and Planning, PMI Loudon County Chapter, Sterling, VA (See: https://www.pmiwdc.org/2014/10/loudoun-community)
Sept. 2014 - Agile Project Manager, Agile Professionals Meetup (Scrum Alliance), Washington, DC (See Video: http://youtu.be/m_-BF6KAB9U)
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