Agile Transformations deliver great value

Success and survival for everyone is constantly under threat in todays hyper competitive world. Today
demanding customers and disruptive technologies are forcing individuals and organizations to embrace
agility across all processes and functions. Organizations now seek to transform themselves into value
driven enterprises that proactively address change as a revenue creating opportunity and do not view it
as an expensive cost head. This rate of change is continuously accelerating as customers themselves
need to embrace agility to stay competitive in their respective fields. Hence agility as an embedded
ability is a necessity for everyone in the business ecosystem: developers, providers, partners, user-
customers and their end-clients. From nations, organizations to individuals everyone is embracing agile
transformation priorities to create new rules of success and new opportunities of better value creation
where none existed before.

Agility and not size is key to sustaining success

Todays interconnected world of global businesses works 24X7 and constantly seeks to create new
avenues of success and revenue sources from around the world. People and businesses now seek to
source best-in-class and not just best-of-breed solutions as they need to scale up their own excellence on
a continuous basis. Provider organizations consistently need to create new value and continuously
improve quality levels to stay relevant to their customers ever increasing demands and changing life-
challenges. Better communication and seamless collaboration allow customers to become key
stakeholders to the success of development projects and this forces everyone to deliver agility with better
velocity on a continuous basis. Managing change requests on the fly and delivering better outcomes
faster on a continuous basis is no longer a luxury but a necessity because competitors in different parts of
the world are quick to unseat original suppliers with smarter, cheaper solutions. Survival of the smartest
and the most agile has replaced survival of the fittest and the biggest of the earlier eras. For businesses
to stay afloat in this globally agile world they need to embrace agile transformation enterprise-wide on a
continuous basis. From business strategy, project development to delivery and customer experience
management organizational growth depends on agile transformations being embedded as a necessary
success-culture across all management practices viz. lean processes and quality management,
continuous people empowerment and use of smart technologies .

External experts driven Agile Transformation deliver better results

As agile transformations become an everyday reality across all internal and external processes
organizations are benefiting from better agile-transformations by employing external experts and
leveraging their proven expertise. With their unmatched process and people neutrality and access to
latest best practices in a constantly evolving agile-transformations management field, external
consultants and trainers bring unique benefits and unmatched ROI gains. External consultants expertly
dissect different processes with ease and create innovative new processes and smart process-fusions by
simply accessing success stories from their other client engagements with similar business challenges.
Hence external experts are able to motivate different team stakeholders and build faster buy-ins to difficult
changes by projecting better outcomes with relative ease. Agile transformations guided by external
experts are now delivering better value with faster change management acceptance across different
departments and people designations.

Building & Sustaining the Agile Transformation Success-Momentum

With the spread of agile transformation across all businesses, big and small, the agile-revolution has been
won by its global evangelists and domain experts. Agile methods of different varieties are today being
used by a vast majority of product development and service delivery teams (72% according to latest
research findings) and the beginning of a brave new Agile-Evolution wave is already underway. This is
now less of a revolution and more of a reality because agile transformations are mainstream and their
inescapable benefits are clear and easily demonstrable. It is important to understand that agile
transformations are different for every organization / team and their key success- factors are constantly
evolving. These constantly changing success-factors need to be addressed fully to allow people to
continuously benefit from their far reaching, better ROI outcomes.

Agile transformations mainly drive changes in an organizations overall culture and work approach. Agile
transformation is not about implementing piecemeal development processes and is certainly not about
implementing select tools. Agile transformation is actually a set of values that an enterprise needs to
fully adopt to continuously deliver better customer value faster. All team leaders and process champions
need to ensure that everybody is set up for success and fully motivated to embrace constantly evolving
changes however unpalatable they might be initially because their end outcome is always desirable. Key
steps needed to enable agile transformations to deliver better value are:
Straightforward and transparent development / delivery processes across the entire project /
business life-cycle.
Continued top management support with complete insulation from unwarranted organizational-
bureaucracy.
Joint outcomes-responsibility across different project members including own-business, partner
and even client stakeholders.
Real-time access to accurate, unbiased data and all relevant information.
The right tools to facilitate better productivity as opposed to unfriendly tools/techniques that
create confusion and users friction.

Forward looking and customer-delight focused nimble organizations are today highly successful by
embracing agile transformations values and embedding agility enterprise-wide as a work-culture
necessity.

Agile Transformations is a long term evolution

Agile transformations need time and perseverance to be fully successful as they are not overnight-
miracles. To fully benefit from these transformation stakeholders and teams need to move ahead with
patience as installing new processes and instilling brand new values do takes time. Its like asking school
teachers accustomed to teaching in traditional classroom styles to suddenly change to a more global and
collaborative process with smart technology enabled custom learning plans for different children over one
semester. Without a super-human effort it is not a fair request. Similarly agile transformation to deliver
value does require significant efforts and ongoing consulting, training, mentoring, coaching and
investments in better technologies and processes Its imperative that a firm effectively transform itself to
its new agile-reality quickly to reap unmatched benefits in short term and in the long run.

Beware of short-cuts as cutting corners and in-bred low cost solutions could delay success and push up
costs with unforeseen errors. In fact these unprofessional failures are probably the biggest reason why
companies fail to fully benefit from todays smart agile-transformation reality. Leadership needs to be
wary of people who combine the words easy with agile in the same breath (unless they include not of
course!). As the agile-transformation evolution gathers momentum the real natural selection of successful
organizations has already begun with non-believers biting the dust globally - pretty quickly. With new
competition realities accelerating this evolutionary process, the rate at which organizations scale up agile
transformations will determine their survival chances today and tomorrow.

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