Just saying that teams will now be agile isn't enough. This transformation of the way people an teams work is a cultural and organizational change that must address many areas to ensure the change happens and continues to improve.
Transformations happen with a concerted effort in an organization's products, their teams, the engineering, and overall within the organization.
Product
Focusing on products versus projects keeps value in mind as well as helps organizational design options to create focused teams. Becoming focused on products helps organizations maintain product vision which is tied to the strategy to create value for the organization.
Team
Teams in the agile world are different. It's not just the events/cadence they are using - it needs to be a value system that supports self organization, facilitation, fast feedback, transparency, and learning. Making this change is difficult and, just like in any physical fitness endeavor, can benefit from an outside coach to pull the team back to the values they need to operate differently.
Engineering
The craft of creating a product becomes the pride of the team. Enhancing their practices, tools, and understanding helps increase productivity, quality, and the production of sustainable solutions.
Enterprise
The enterprise itself needs to transform to support new team values, alignment of their organizational design to their product strategy, and the quest for better engineering to produce stable systems that are anti-fragile. This is done thru a coordinated organizational change effort which changes most aspects of the organization so that the whole system can embrace an empirical process inspecting the product, adapting their next steps based on learning and market changes. This ability to keep up with the demands the organization needs is dependent on transparency not only within teams but throughout the enterprise.
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A transformation is more than finding a framework to point to - this is a large organizational and cultural change people must go through to have it stick and continue to improve - let's talk about how to do this.