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Analyst Watch: Companies must embrace holistic change to achieve agile results


By Diego Lo Giudice
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August 22, 2012 —  (Page 2 of 3)
Step 3: Align the transformation strategy with business priorities. Maximizing agile’s value requires focusing on certain aspects of the business to distinguish between good and bad projects for agile. Though agile will often help throughout the organization, the cost can only be justified in areas that are having the biggest challenges or that are adding the most value. Agile values include 1) individuals and interactions over processes and tools; 2) working software over comprehensive documentation; 3) customer collaboration over contract negotiation; and 4) responding to change over following a plan.

Step 4: Apply agile and lean practices to processes, people and organizations. Understanding and committing to lean principles and agile values is critical and only the first stage of a long transformation journey. The overall strategy should help empower application development teams to select the right agile and lean practices for the right projects, as agile will have a sizeable impact on traditional project-management processes. Scrum is the most-adopted agile method in the market, not only because it is the simplest to use, but also because it focuses mostly on project-management practices and business collaboration, an obvious place for many organizations to start. But many organizations actually adopt a mix of existing practices together with SCRUM: kanban, XP, BDD and others. The strategy should also help balance the right mix.

Step 5: Use agile and lean ALM tools, and enough architecture to encourage continuous change. In any transformation program, sooner or later you will hit the technology wall. Process alone will not be sufficient to scale agile through the enterprise, and continuous change can be challenging. The road map of tools for project management will need to be open and dynamic because as maturity and scale change, so will the tools. There are tools that help learning and adopting agile and lean, as well as tools that help scale it out, and there is a right time and situation to adopt new tooling if not from day one of your transformation.



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