8 EMERGING THEMES WE’VE SEEN IN 2019

8 EMERGING THEMES WE’VE SEEN IN 2019 IN AGILE TRANSFORMATION

TAKE THE TIME TO DEFINE SUCCESS

Organizations wanting to achieve agility should not overlook or rush through the success discussions prior to engaging the delivery teams.

ALIGNMENT ON PURPOSE, IS CENTRAL

By adopting New Ways of Working within your organisation, allows you to ensure alignment on purpose is set at the start of process.

EXPANDING AGILE TO SUPPORT FUNCTIONS

It's the reason why Chelsea Bates our Melbourne principal at ADAPTOVATE believes it’s a central theme in 2019. She’s seen “the successful application of agile principles to support functions such as HR, Marketing and Risk. Agile is no longer just the domain of technology and product teams.”

UNDERSTANDING WHEN TO SCALE YOUR AGILE WAY OF WORKING

He continues “That point where it makes sense to pivot from small pilots, to implementing an overall design. Hopefully this is done with enough guidance to enable people to know what needs to be achieved, and enough autonomy to organise themselves.”

AGILE TRANSFORMATION = CROSS FUNCTIONAL TEAM AUTONOMY

Cross-functional team autonomy means managers are more forward focused and strategic, rather than operational and tactical - which is exactly where we want our leaders to be!”

BRINGING DevOps CLOSER TOGETHER

With constant visibility of outcomes allowing for effective iterative investment, organizations are also embracing the cost-efficiency of this approach.

MANAGING HUGE DATA SETS

Slawomir says “Companies are starting to look to Agile for more effective ways of using the enormous data sets they have and introducing data-based personalized customer offerings.”

BREAKING DOWN GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES

More and more organizations realize that the right approach and tools will enable effective collaboration across geographic boundaries. Which in today's global economy can be critical for success.