Towards Agile Organisations

Tathagat VarmaKnowledgepreneur

http://thoughtleadership.in

HOW MANY OF YOU ARE AGILE? (OR, ATLEAST YOU THINK YOU ARE AGILE!)

AND…HOW MANY OF “THEM” ARE AGILE? (ATLEAST IN YOUR VIEW!)

CEOCFO CMO CPO CIO CTO CxO…..

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WHY?(NO, I’M NOT TALKING ABOUT SCALING OR TRANSFORMATION!)

Hint: Why should your CFO really care about your burn-down

chart?

IT SPEND VS REVENUE(GUESS THE SOFTWARE PORTION!)

~3% http://www.softwareadvice.com/resources/construction-buyer-report-2015/

HOW MUCH IS MARKETING SPEND VS REVENUE? (JUST FOR FUN :-)

~3X

SO, TELL ME AGAIN…HOW MUCH OF YOUR “AGILE” IMPACTS MY $$$S?

???

THREE LEVELS OF ENTERPRISE AGILITY

Scaling Up (SAFe, LeSS, DAD,…)

Scaling Out (Agile Sales, Agile Marketing,…)

Scaling Down (Beyond Budgeting, Holacracy,…)

SVENSKA HANDELSBANKEN

12 PRINCIPLES OF BEYOND BUDGETING

Governance and Transparency

ValuesGovernanceTransparency

Accountable Teams

TeamsTrust

Accountability

Goals and Rewards

GoalsRewards

Planning and Controls

PlanningCoordination

ResourcesControls

Radical Decentralisation

Adaptive Process

CONTRASTING MENTAL MODELS

RECAP

Agile Manifesto is one of the ways to achieve higher agility for software teams

However, organisations are far more complex than a single software team, especially other functions

Scaling Up agile teams might not address all the fundamental issues impacting enterprise agility

Scaling Down is all about making organisations more adaptive and decentralised, and paves the way to an agile organization

REFERENCES

Characteristics of an Agile Organization, http://infoq.com/news/2011/01/characteristics-agile-org

Characteristics of Agile Organizations, http://agilealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Characteristics-of-Agile-Organizations.pdf

How to make the Whole Organisation Agile, http://forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2015/07/22/how-to-make-the-whole-organization-agile

Bring Agile to the Whole Organization, http://hbr.org/2014/11/bring-agile-to-the-whole-organization

Reasons Why Agile Transformations Fail, http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2016/04/reasons-why-agile-transformations-fail.php

Beyond Budgeting, books, website and other resources

http://www.beyondbudgeting.org/beyond-budgeting/bb-mental.html