Agile Organizational Design
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Underlying Assumptions
- Not Prescriptive (it is situational)
- Relies on Agile Values & Processes
Problem Statement
- An organization has expressed an interest in sustaining agility beyond the coaching engagement
An Agile Sustainability Roadmap
- A company is made up of Culture, Systems, and Processes
- Culture = Why does the organization exist?, Values and Mission. It is in the background.
- Systems = How the work is done, Expressions of culture (i.e. org chart, pay structure, seating arrangements)
- Processes = Provide the outcomes (i.e. Scrum teams, line workers)
- How do you get to sustaining agility?
- Examine the Culture, Systems, and Processes
- Uncover misalignments that block Agility
- Show example models that might give the organization an idea of how to change their systems
- Mission is the Boss
- Create an Agility Team that Creates and Accomplishes a 'Becoming Agile' Backlog to change the systems
- As Scrum coaches we often start by changing processes
- These changes are not sustainable because they are blocked by systems that do not support the updated processes
