This category contains topics associated with how to do a successful Agile transformation at an enterprise level. Successfully implementing Agile at an enterprise level in many cases cannot be done without some level of Agile transformation in the organization.
This can be a gut-wrenching change for many organizations that might involve:
Successful implementation of Agile at an enterprise level may require a significant enterprise-level Agile transformation.
The problem is that large companies typically have some kind of management infrastructure such as a PMO for managing projects. They also typically have some kind of project portfolio management approach to align projects with the company’s business strategy. And, in many cases, their existing management infrastructure probably isn’t totally compatible with an Agile development approach. The choices are:
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Why is Agile Change Management so important? Implementing an Agile transformation can require a big shift in thinking and possibly also require changing a well-established corporate culture for many companies. That is not an easy thing to do and it requires some skill and planning to do it successfully. The Need for Agile Change Management […]
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A student in one of my courses asked if I could help him develop a short and succinct way of “How Do You Go About Selling Agile? I think it’s an excellent topic and I told him I would write up something on that. Here it is… How Do You Go About Selling Agile? First,
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I recently wrote an article on a “Business-centric Approach to Agile“. Have you ever thought about how similar Business Process Reengineering and Agile Transformation are? The similarities are amazing but I suspect that many people don’t think of any relationship between BPR and Agile. What Is Business Process Reengineering? Business Process Reengineering (BPR) was very
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I was recently asked to help a consulting firm work with a client on a very large enterprise-level Agile implementation. The company had gone totally into Agile across the whole company and the Senior Executives were unhappy with the way it was going: Many projects were going off track and senior management didn’t feel like
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Developing an Agile company culture can be a major obstacle to successfully implementing an Agile development approach; however, it doesn’t have to be that difficult. Some people make the mistake of thinking that you have to change the entire culture of a company in order to adopt an Agile development approach I don’t believe that
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Agile and Corporate Culture It’s important to understand the relationship of Agile and corporate culture. Adapting an Agile development process to a corporate culture can be a very difficult thing to do. Especially if it involves changing a well-established corporate culture If you ignore this problem and implement an Agile development process without attempting to
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