Operating a successful Agile IT team is no longer special, let alone revolutionary. In fact, most organizations are past mastering Agile adoption in their IT and are seeking to extend these practices to their support functions, such as HR, procurement, etc.
However, because these support functions have wildly different processes, practices, and culture compared to IT, it comes as no surprise that there are more botched cases of scaled Agile than success stories. The Annual State of Agile Report confirms that “inconsistencies in processes and practices” are the top blocker (at 46 percent) to achieving true organizational agility.
In this blog, we provide three recommendations to help improve the success and sustainability of scaling Agile to support functions.
This aids decentralization as well as empowering people to tackle challenges themselves and take ownership, especially when it comes to quality. Never forget, creating awareness about how people can continuously improve products and processes is integral to sustaining transformation.
In today’s tumultuous markets, where organizations are relentlessly trying to gain competitive advantage, the prospect of being a fast-moving, adaptive, customer-centric and Agile organization is the new differentiator.
Based on our experience of guiding and supporting financial organizations through their transformation journeys, the above factors are fundamental to scaling Agile beyond IT and achieving that differentiation.
As every company is unique, the implementation requires close collaboration with a team of Agile experts. Capco’s Agile services partner with organizations through every step of their Agile journey, from determining the organizational readiness to scaling and accelerating the transformation. Contact us to discuss how we can help your firm establish, improve or scale Agile and achieve your transformational goals.
15th Annual State of Agile Report digital.ai. https://info.digital.ai/rs/981-LQX-968/images/SOA15.pdf
Why visionary leadership fails, Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2019/02/why-visionary-leadership-fails