agile transformation playbook - corbin solutions
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Agile Transformation Playbook
Agile breaks large, complex problems into smallermodules that can be solved in an incremental and adaptive manner
ToAgile approach
FromTraditional approach
Perfect plans and failure avoidance
Multitasking on everything
Positive reports on progress
Control and power
Layers of hierarchical approval
Rapid adaptation and failure recovery
Dedicated focus on the most valuable work
Transparent views of prototypes
Trust and coaching
Customer collaboration and approval
Operations and innovations are complimentary, interdependent, mutually beneficial capabilities
Run the business
(operations)
Change the business
(innovation)
• Fight stagnation
• Accelerate adaption
• Limit losses from ineffective variations
• Grow gains from successful variations
• Sustain and scale proven success models
• Eliminate waste
• Develop stable and predictable processes
• Minimize the risk of variation from critical operating standards
Ensure that business and innovation find a balance and work on the same team
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Agile teams attack market opportunities like successful start-ups do
Individuals and interactions over
processes and tools
Working solutions over excessive documentation
Customer collaboration over
rigid contracts
Responding to change over following
a plan
Establish a fun, creative working environment
Trust and empowercapable people with minimum viable bureaucracy
Removeimpediments to theirsuccesses
Facilitate frequentface-to-facecommunications
Break complex problems into manageable modules
Experiment with small parts of the solution for short periods
Deliver working solutions in each cycle of work that are ready for customer feedback
Prioritize what customers value most; deliver as quickly as possible
Test and learn with a few customers to prove that innovation can create profitable customers
Adapt as customers learn what they really value
Create a vision and plan, but plan in detail only activities that won’t change before execution
Celebrate learning that improves the team’s direction
Turn more innovations into ‘two-way doors’
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There are two general approaches to agile transitions
Bureaucratic big bang
•Spend 6-9 months preparing for the big event•Copy the structures of apparently agile companies•Fire everyone and rehire 70-80% (often in different positions)
•Assign as many people as possible to agile “tribes”
•Works best when: •The busines is troubled•The company needs serious cost reduction and an entirely new organization structure
•Leadership knows exactly how many agile teams it needs, where, and by when
•The culture is receptive to agility•The business has enough talented and experienced agile practitioners to staff all teams
•The business can operate on autopilot while people learn new jobs
•Leaders need to take major risks
Agile development
•View agile scaling as an agile initiative •Launch agile teams in waves•Prioritize and sequence initiatives•Test, learn and adjust the teams and operating model over time
•Works best when: •Leaders intend to exemplify agile values•Growth is more important than cost reduction•The greatest needs are innovation and speed•Leadership is uncertain how far or how fast it should push toward an agile enterprise
•The organization needs time to develop more agile cultures and practitioners
•Excessive organizational trauma could harm results and reduce agility
•Leaders do need to take major risks
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An enterprise-level transformation requires a holistic approach
Business Agility
Team Agility
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Corbin Solutions Agile Strategy & Transformation Playbook
The building blocks of an agile transformation
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The leadership team transforms from a collection of silo heads to an agile team
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CMO CFO CIO CHRO COOBranding and advertising operations
Reporting, transactions and analysis
Technology architecture and operations
Setting and delivering HR policies
Delivery against operational targets
Operational accountabilities
Centralizing customer data and insights
Improving feedback channels
Identifying high-value customer initiatives
Strengthening talent planning and resource allocation visibility
Adapting talent system for agile teaming, including hiring, training and coaching
Coaching leadership team on agile values and behaviors from IT experience
Improving process to kickoff new cross-functional agile teams
Applying financial tools to help build and prioritize the strategic backlog
Adapting planning and budgeting processes to better enable innovation
Creating processes to connect agile innovation teams to operations
Strategy, culture, and innovation accountabilities
Top Ten for doing agile right Use agile approaches to build an agile business system
Apply agile principles everywhere and use agile practices as tools for agile teams
Deploy teams with clear, compelling objectives that are: small, autonomous, customer-focused, multi-
disciplinary, dedicated, psychologically safe, and collectively intelligent
Create prioritized, sequenced, transparent backlogs with adaptive roadmaps
Work in small batches, with rapid feedback loops and frequent wins
Make rapid decisions and swiftly remove impediments
Develop metrics for tracking and improving inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes and purposes
Define explicit roles and responsibilities to define, discover, design, develop and deliver agile
innovation initiatives
Set a sustainable, energizing pace
Constantly shift resources from lower return activities to higher return activities
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