Agile Flight Path

Agile Flight Pathfor Enterprise Agile

Transformations

Jul 2015Vishu Hegde

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Enterprise Agile Transformation In our consulting/coaching engagements with

several organizations on Agile Transformation, we have seen that organizations struggle to have a roadmap for the enterprise-wide transformation and scaling up

What all the areas to address? Where to begin? What are the sequence of initiatives/activities to take

up? How to monitor progress of overall transformation?

Agile Flight Path analogy has been useful in these contexts both for the Scrum teams and for the management team

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Typical Agile adoption journey

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Release, Sprint cycles

Structure (Scrum Teams, Roles)

Scrum practices, artifacts

Engineering Practices

Culture change (behaviors, collaboration, self-organizing)

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Matu

rity

This chart shows the broad areas to address and what to expect over a time line during the Agile transformation journey

Data driven practices (sizing, velocity,…)Change takes time; Needs perseverance

Agile Flight Path

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Taxiing RunwayTake-off

Climbing

Cruising

Orbit changeScrum Practices

EngineeringPractices

Data drivenPractices

Culturechange

Scrum Team Structures in place

Product Backlog, Release Planning, Sprint Planning done

Sprint 0 activities started

Scrum ceremonies happening

Agile Flight Path – Kanban Board

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Taxiing RunwayTake-off

Climbing

Cruising

Orbit changeScrum Practices

EngineeringPractices

Data drivenPractices

Culturechange

Proj1Proj4Proj8

Proj2Proj5

Proj3Proj9

Proj6Proj7

Agile Flight Path is used like a Kanban board to indicate the enterprise wide Agile adoption progress – which projects are in which stage. An assessment instrument is used to characterize the adoption stages. Project teams do the self-assessment using this instrument.

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