AGILITY ACROSS THE ENTERPRISE

Enterprise agility isn’t just a buzz phrase. It’s about the ability of our organizations as a whole to develop the same skills and experiences through the adoption of agile principles and practices as were encouraged and coached on their product and solution development teams. It’s about living up to an adapted agile manifesto that can be applied to teams across the organization. It’s also about demonstrating great servant leadership and  ownership of the values.

In an organization looking to adopt agile across the enterprise, it’s important to ensure we have certain roles in place. Three of these roles are:

is a business leader responsible for leveraging results and evolving a given business context, through the development of new organizational capabilities based on Lean, Agile and Exponential approaches. They provide the foundation for which many of the team rely. Through common understanding and communication of the businesses strategy as well as sponsorship and support of the product or solution, the Agile Business Owner can make or break a successful implementation.

is the person who wishes to implement coaching skills to find and manage the necessary changes and thus achieve objectives and meet goals. They guide people and organizations in the process of changing from a current to a future or better state in the least painful way possible in order to obtain phenomenal and sustainable results. They live the agile principles and practices and instill them in others in support of the organizational mission. As the coach they are supportive and protective to ensure everyone else can focus on what’s important.

Projects are affected by constraints in time, cost, scope, quality, resources, organizational capabilities, and other limitations that make them difficult to plan, execute, manage, and ultimately succeed. Through developing an agile human resources department you enable the organization to overcome these challenges.

It’s difficult to align an organization to agile methodology when things as simple as human resource management is not aligned even at the level of roles and responsibilities. While reorganization and renaming of roles to align to the principles and best practices isn’t easy, doing so can have a great effect on the efficacy of the initiative.

What Next?

Agility must be learned and practiced. These opportunities do not lead to successes overnight, nor are they typically easy. They can be downright hard. But every successful implementation of agile, whether across a team, teams, or the entire organization must start with appropriate training.

While we offer several courses and certifications in agility and you are welcome to register for any of  them here, we have partnered with CertiProf to make  the three roles above easily affordable and attainable. Take a look here. These certifications are offered in three languages and will prove your prepared to begin your organizational agile journey.

Happy learning.