Agile Transformation Explained

Leading a large-scale agile transformation isn’t about adopting a new set of attitudes, processes, and behaviors at the team level… it’s about helping your company deliver faster to market, and developing the ability to respond to a rapidly-changing competitive landscape. First and foremost, it’s about achieving business agility. Business agility comes from people having clarity of purpose, a willingness to be held accountable, and the ability to achieve measurable outcomes. Unfortunately, almost everything in modern organizations gets in the way of teams acting with any sort of autonomy. In most companies, agile transformation requires significant organizational change.

Agile transformation necessitates a fundamental rethinking of how your company organizes for delivery, how it delivers value to its customers, and how it plans and measures outcomes. Agile transformation is about building enabling structures, aligning the flow of work, and measuring for outcomes based progress. It's about breaking dependencies. The reality is that this kind of change can only be led from the top. This talk will explore how executives can define an idealized end-state for the transformation, build a fiscally responsible iterative and incremental plan to realize that end-state, as well as techniques for tracking progress and managing change.

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0:00 Introduction
0:45 What Agile Transformation Is Fundamentally About
2:49 Deciding The Scope Of The Transformation
4:40 What Is Your Transformation Hypothesis?
9:30 What Do We Need To Overcome?
13:40 How Much Resistance Are You Going To Get?
15:43 Defining Your Transformation Approach
23:40 The Four Quadrants
41:45 Patterns Of Scaled Transformations