Agile Values, Principles and Transformation

Razi Ejaz Ahmed

Oct 2015

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Agile Values, Principles and Transformation

Being Agile Means Changing
Agile Transformation
Corporate DNA:
Successful companies have welldefined business models. They
know what works and what doesnt.
They have a formula for generating
revenue and controlling expenses.
Its all good until the business
model needs to change.
Why would a successful company
want to change its business model?
New product competition
Disruptive technologies
Lower-cost competitors
Marketplace demands
Rising costs
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Agile Values, Principles and Transformation

Being Agile Means Changing Corporate DNA:
Agile Transformation
Here are ways to change corporate DNA,
become truly agile, and achieve real
innovation:
Build a business model that thrives on
change
Be adaptive by continually making small
changes throughout the organization.
Diversify by allowing teams to try new ideas.
Re-architect and re-design then test, test,
test.
Reward people who innovate and drive new
ideas.
Never shrug-off a potential competitor even
if their approach is drastically different
Be open to partnerships with other big
companies and small potential rivals.
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Agile Values, Principles and Transformation

The challenge of building Agile success
extends much further than Agile
delivery of each project. Organizations
must understand the impact of broader
constraints across the business
processes.
As you begin the transformation,
analyzing the strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities, and threats that are
implicit in the change proposal can
provide valuable insight that will
influence the change management
plan. The common format used in
SWOT Analysis is a 2-by-2 matrix grid
that considers the four attributes
mentioned.
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Agile Transformation

Below points important for Organization to

succeed:
Without discipline Agile will not work
Business stakeholders involved must
understand and inculcate agile
Incremental completion of scope throughout
the project.
Teams that do not effectively define their
acceptance criteria for each story will
never succeed.
An experience coach to avoid blame game
A major mitigation here is training and more
importantly, effective support from someone
with actual experience in the field.
Reduce process overhead
Continuous Improvement
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Agile Values, Principles and Transformation

Benefits of Agile :
Agile Transformation
Begin to mark and celebrate each
successful sprint, with the result that
employees feel rewarded for their ongoing
efforts, not just for big-picture results.
Thats a big boost for productivity and
morale.
Scrums transparency reveals strengths and
weak spots.
Accountability increases,
Can deliver value faster, higher quality and
is motivating
Iterative and Incremental:
Inspect the outcome and learn to
validate your assumptions and
hypothesis

Agile Values, Principles and Transformation

Agile Transformation

Benefits of Agile :
Focus :
Deliver value, one step at a time by
stopping starting new things, and
focusing on finishing already started
things
Continuous Improvement :
Organization and Structures are
constantly challenged in order to deliver
more value and faster
Self Organization :
Teams are organizing and managing
themselves , as they are taking
responsibility to deliver value and
maximize their effectiveness and survey

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Agile Values, Principles and Transformation

Agile Transformation
A static strategy might
not be suited for the
new speed.
You need a more
dynamic and adaptive
way of directing your
company, to reflect
changes rapidly.
Finally you will need to
develop internal
leadership and coaching
capabilities , to allow
your organization to
adapt rapidly and
continuously to changes.
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Metrics Reporting : Metrics for an

Agile project are very different than
Waterfall and require upfront
negotiation.
Invest in training : Training in their
new role as team facilitator may be
a good idea.
Ideally, IT and the business should
be mutually engaged, working sideby-side through the transition.

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