Agile Transformation in nutshell

Agile transformation is huge exercise and depends upon lot of factors like:

·         Size or organization;

·         Is it a department or whole enterprise?;

·         Existing work culture;

·         Business domain;

·         Existing organizational structure;

·         Degree of agile buy in at executive level; and many more

Lot of folks ask, what are the steps to transform an organization. My answer starts with famous line

“It depends”

Then I start my blabber.

I prefer to start small (one or may be two scrum/Kanban teams). As number of team grows adopt scrum of scrum (or nexus). Depending upon teams’ feedback, management feedback, business domain, technical complexity, and future vision adopt LeSS or DAD or Spotify Model. In mean times continues the transformation and keep on adding more teams in agile fold (major development, support & maintenance and minor development engagements – Scrum and Kanban). As teams get start working in scrum and Kanban,  tearing down boundaries of dev and support teams and start merging them into DevOps model ( major development efforts still work in scrum mode with few members from DevOps teams depending upon capacity of devOps teams). In parallel transformation of PMO into more agile friendly is continuing. Once sufficient momentum is acquired choose tweaked version of SAFe or LeSS Huge.

Again, these are guidelines not the steps.