The 4 Must-Have Agile Traits Your Company Needs to Succeed
Agility is a necessary response for an organization to not
only keep up with these changes, but outpace competition
in order to delight customers, succeed and grow.
Without rooting agility in the culture and structure of the organization, leadership in many organizations finds it
challenging to sustain healthy and effective Agile practices. They introduce Agile as a process and encourage
teams to practice. However, without deeper Agile stabilization, organizations will often change their approach
frequently since they have little clarity about what agility looks like or how to accomplish it. They wind up thrashing
through their Agile discovery (represented by the red line in the chart below).
Adopting and Sustaining Agility
Leveraging external guidance and structural patterns
often enables organizations to achieve a healthier and
more effective Agile implementation more quickly.
This can be seen in currently popular Agile scaling
frameworks and consultative guidance. However,
again without leadership to drive the alignment of
agility with organizational culture, once the initial Agile
change initiative concludes, these organizations are
often challenged to sustain agility. They often recede
to previous working modes that people find more
comfortable. This "rolling agility" is represented by the
blue line in the chart below.
Sustaining agility is critical because neither the
organization, nor the external marketplace, is static
— both are evolving. And due to ongoing technology
advancements, the marketplace is evolving faster
each year. Agility is a necessary response for an
organization to not only keep up with these changes,
but outpace competition in order to delight customers,
succeed and grow. When agility is rooted within
organizational culture, and structures have been
established to support it, organizations can adapt
and grow. This inside-out approach enables an
organization to not only succeed in the short term,
but sustain for long-term changes and growth. This is
represented by the green line in the chart below.
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