Post on 23-Jan-2018
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Towards Agile Organisations
Tathagat VarmaKnowledgepreneur
http://thoughtleadership.in
AND…HOW MANY OF “THEM” ARE AGILE? (ATLEAST IN YOUR VIEW!)
CEOCFO CMO CPO CIO CTO CxO…..
VP
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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/
THREE LEVELS OF ENTERPRISE AGILITY
Scaling Up (SAFe, LeSS, DAD,…)
Scaling Out (Agile Sales, Agile Marketing,…)
Scaling Down (Beyond Budgeting, Holacracy,…)
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
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