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A Compelling WHY?

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A Compelling WHY?

I was reading an article from Mike Hall of Agile Velocity entitled The Most Important Question to Answer for Successful Agile Transformations. I’ve known Mike for quite a while and he’s an incredibly practical and skilled agile coach. So, I really wanted to explore the question. Point being…he had me “hooked”.

In the article he talked about how establishing a Business Objective was a crucial first step in any agile transformation effort. I’ll reframe it to be—your Compelling Why.

9 Typical Business Objectives

Mike spoke about Agile Velocity’s, Path to Agility framework having 9 business objectives that they typically try to uncover with their clients:

  1. Employee engagement

  2. Customer satisfaction

  3. Quality

  4. Speed

  5. Predictability

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What’s your incentive to be “Agile”?

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What’s your incentive to be “Agile”?

I once worked as a coach at a large financial firm that had been “going Agile” for quite awhile. They were one of the worlds largest firms, so the teams and the projects were often distributed.

They had invested in a relationship with a Ukrainian firm to outsource a significant part of their software. This had been going on for a while, so there was integration between internal and outsourced agile team members.

I was pulled in to help the outsourced teams with their understanding of agile practices. You see, even though they “said” they were agile, their behaviors were really suspect and more indicated cowboy and self-centered development.

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