Enterprise Agile Failure Modes and Solutions

Duration: 55 minutes

Webinar Overview:

Agile adoption holds so much promise it sounds too good to be true. Often transformation efforts to adopt agile get off to impressive starts. Pilot projects typically succeed and enthusiasm is high. However, when moving towards broader adoption and attempting to institutionalize sustained agile practices, the successes of the pilot efforts fade into the past and organizations find themselves frustrated with poor traction and increased headaches.

Such experiences are often accompanied by a slide in process maturity from what were prior accomplishments with establishing standard process assets and tools. These challenges not only appear among companies transitioning to agile, they even appear among companies who have never used anything but agile.

So if agile is so great, holds so much promise and seems to succeed with so many teams-

• What causes these problems?
• Shouldn’t agile have solved them?

Webinar Outline:

• The webinar will begin by introducing a framework for understanding different types of companies and how these differences are critical to successful transition to (or use of) agile methods at scale.
• Companies have differing delivery constraints and business drivers that are likely working against even the best of agile transformation.
• Next we will explore a strategy for establishing an end state vision and an operational model to guide transformation.
• Finally, we’ll define an approach for incrementally introducing change, measuring outcomes, and sustaining the change once things really get going and keep them going at scale.