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The Enterprise Transition Framework
by agile42
Becoming Agile
is the way to
continuos improvement for any organisation. It enables you to deliver better products
produced by happy employees to achieve a faster time to market
and to attain higher customer satisfaction. It's the continuous cycle of assessment
strategic alignment and experimental pilot projects
that makes your company better by establishing a mindset of continuous improvement.
Any company business model can internally be represented by a balance
between the following four dimensions:
Vision & Strategy, Organisation & Structure
People & Skills and Products and Technology.
These four dimensions are kept in connection by well-performing management processes
If any imbalance occurs problems may arise that will hinder your organisation
from reaching its goals.
Becoming Agile redresses this balance through an empirically controlled process.
It permeates the whole of an organisation and affects every element within it
including culture. As a result of this approach
you cannot buy Agile. It's an individual journey
that each organisation and each team within this organisation
needs to go through.
It encourages the empowerment of individuals and teams
self-organisation, shared responsibility and focus.
An Agile organisation constantly tries to reorganise itself
through subsequent adaptations in order to achieve better results
the same way an Agile team performs. It will start
a continuous and measurable improvement process.
agile42 has created the Enterprise Transition Framework
that leads and support an organisation through the process of becoming more Agile.
The springboard to Agile is an initial assessment of the organisation.
This happens through workshops with groups of representatives at the
highest possible diversity in terms of roles and responsibility.
It helps to determine the status quo of the organisation from a top-down
and bottom-up perspective.
The assessment will provide both a business and cultural fit analysis
aiming at understanding the best way to introduce Agile in an organisation.
Once the state of the organisation has been analysed from diverse perspectives
the leadership team needs to determine the best strategy for change.
In a workshop
the leadership team defines current business goals, learns about Agile then
draws a first version of the Agile Strategy Map.
The Agile Strategy Map will start from the summary of the findings and
definitions of the next possible improvements in short
mid- and long-term perspectives. It brings together the insights of the assessment
and the business goals.
The leadership team defines these goals for different departments
roles or teams. It determines various experiments
also called pilot projects, which results
in case of success can be projected to other teams and departments in a roll-out phase.
Pilot projects are designed as "safe to fail" experiments.
They allow incremental structural changes by enabling to test new business
processes on a small but significant scale
for example at a team level, instead of having to take the risk to restructure
the organisation as a whole.
This allows people not to fear failure and enables the organisation to learn
from whatever outcome will be achieved.
Once the pilot projects have been defined the conditions for success and
for failure need to be determined.
The goal of a pilot project is to verify the hypothesis set by the leadership
team at the lowest possible cost.
In case of an uncertain outcome everything between the define success
conditions and failure conditions
the pilot phase will be repeated with different setup, refocusing
in order to constantly improve the result. This incremental and empirical
process will be repeated until the result of a pilot satisfies the
predefined conditions for success
or the leadership team will decide that it isn't worth to continue.
The leadership team decides when to continue to pilot and when it is time to
roll out the results of one of the pilots to the rest to the organisation.
Once the rollout decision has been taken
there is the need to plan it across the organisation and to evaluate the impact
of the changes across the whole system.
The Agile Strategy Map will support you in this process
by allowing to identify all the necessary conditions
which are required in order to make the rollout successful.
This improvement cycle will be constantly repeated in various areas of
the organisation.
During the whole process a team of internal coaches will be trained by agile42
to support the transition process and to encourage the mindset change throughout
the whole organisation.
A wide set
of operational tools and Agile training modules are on hand to pursue
the transition process.
The Enterprise Transition Framework by agile42
will help you to bring out the best in your organisation no matter whether you
are a local business
or a multinational corporation. It will work for
every organisation.
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