Accelerating Agile through Effective Governance
Summary
A Lightweight Model for Real Change at All Levels of an Organization In the past two decades, 75% companies worldwide have tried to gain the advantages of agility–primarily, acceleration of speed-to-market. The ability to accelerate the delivery of products and services is dependent on a number of internal and external variables, and more importantly the combination of those variables–which interact in complicated, systemic ways. Advice: Working and thinking differently occurs at all levels of an organization, including leadership and strategy, portfolio management and product roadmapping, and refactoring your codebase to accommodate new features. Here’s a governance model that maximizes the bidirectional communication to align and accelerate day-to-day (tactical) work with organizational (strategic) goals, which is the point of agile. Self-organizing teams require focused feedback loops and support from change leaders and leadership to align on acceptable constraints (that impede acceleration).