Enable Organization-Wide Collaboration by Scaling Agile

Your organization is realizing benefits from adopting Agile principles and practices in pockets of your organization.
You are starting to investigate opportunities to extend Agile beyond these pilot implementations into other areas of the organization. You are looking for a coordinated approach aligned to business priorities.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Not all lessons from a pilot project are transferable. Pilot processes are tailored to a specific project’s scope, team, and tools, and they may not account for the diverse attributes in your organization.
Control may be necessary for coordination. More moving parts means enforcing consistent cadences, reporting, and communication is a must if teams are not disciplined or lack good governance.
Scale Agile in departments tolerable to change. Incrementally roll Agile out in departments where its principles are accepted (e.g. a culture of continuous improvement, embracing failures as lessons).

Impact and Result

Complete an Agile capability assessment of your pilot functional group to gauge anticipated Agile benefits. Identify the business objectives and the group drivers that are motivating a scaled Agile implementation.
Understand the challenges that you may face when scaling Agile. Investigate the root causes of inefficiencies that can derail your scaling initiatives.
Brainstorm solutions to your scaling challenges and envision a target state for your growing Agile environment. Your target state will discover new opportunities to drive more business value and eliminate current activities driving down productivity.
Coordinate the implementation and execution of scaling Agile initiatives with a Scaling Agile Playbook. This organic and collaborative document will lay out the process, roles, goals, and objectives needed to successfully manage your Agile environment.

Enable Organization-Wide Collaboration by Scaling Agile Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should scale up Agile, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

Enable Organization-Wide Collaboration by Scaling Agile – Executive Brief

1. Gauge readiness to scale up Agile

Evaluate the readiness of the pilot functional group and Agile development processes to adopt scaled Agile practices.

2. Define scaled Agile target state

Alleviate scaling issues and risks and introduce new opportunities to enhance business value delivery with Agile practices.

3. Create implementation plan

Roll out scaling Agile initiatives in a gradual, iterative approach and define the right metrics to demonstrate success.

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What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

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Guided Implementation 1: Gauge your readiness to scale up Agile

Call 1: Review your functional group fit and capability assessment for scaling up Agile
Call 2: Discuss your current state assessment of functional group structure and Agile development process