Team transformation from waterfall to agile
- 1 day awareness program for key stakeholders
- 2 days team training with mock project
- 4 days implementation support during the first sprint
- Scaling scrum support
The title ‘agile implementation’ itself will raise the eyebrows of many agile pundits / purists because agile culture has to be nurtured than implemented. Theoretically I agree to this view, whereas practically it is time consuming and unpredictable. What we repeatedly do become our culture. Hence, we are strong proponents of ‘Agile implementation’ according to a plan to the early adopters and over a period of that will become the defacto culture.
The demand for agility has increased in an unprecedented manner due to distributed teams, hybrid styles of working and the need to deliver faster than the competition. Even though agile project management frameworks were software development specific initially, these days other functions like marketing, engineering, procurement, banking and HR have started adopting agile.
When it comes to embracing agility, since the options are many, the sponsors and champions of agile implementations within organizations have various views, about improving agility of teams, departments and organizations. Big bang approach Vs start small and then scale are the predominant contention point. At least 50% of our clients are the ones who tried the big bang approach which failed after spending considerable amount of time and money. Instead of creating more agile supporters, these failed agile initiatives created more agile skeptics. These same organizations got better results when they tried the start small and then scale approach.
Agile Implementation
This proven agile implementation plan will surely transform your teams from waterfall way of working to agile way of working using the Scrum framework.
What are the key benefits of this Agile implementation plan
This agile implementation plan is very effective, becuase;
- It is highly manageable. If we try a large scale big bang implementation it becomes unmanageable at times. It also leads to improper stakeholder management leading to high degree of resistance to change.
- It helps you to start the agile transformation journey without disrupting the current culture. This will help to reduce resistance to change.
- Delivers presentable results within 30 to 60 days. This is important to get organizational support.
- It creates internal champions, who will sell ‘agile’ internally. The internal champions also will reduce the dependency on external coaches, consultants and trainers after the initial handholding.
- Irrespective of the ‘success’ or ‘failure’ of the initial sprints, the agile vocabulary gets ingrained into the organization’s DNA