How To Do Agile Right

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Agile teams believe that customer feedback is better than management hunches for determining which innovation efforts are most important and how best to adapt them.’

Agile teams do not use sprints to make people work harder or faster. They use sprints to get faster feedback real customers (external and internal) about what those customers truly value.’

‘Creating an agile enterprise requires balancing and integrating operations with innovation.’

‘The best way to manage the transition to an agile enterprise is to manage it like any other agile team.’

Effective agile programs adapt to empirical feedback about inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and purposes. Few organizations currently have sufficient data to assess their present level of agility or their progress in improving it.’

Teams in an agile enterprise must make decisions quickly. Agile leadership teams can support quick decision making by being inclusive, overcommunicating, coaching, and building learning loops.’

‘Contrary to the popular myth, planning is an essential part of agile. Planning, budgeting, and reviewing must work together in frequent, adaptive cycles.’

Continuously revisit your talent strategy, recognizing that while you will need some new talent, most of the people in your organization are already there.’

Persistent, cross-functional agile teams are the best ways to improve business processes and technology. As teams gain experience and trust with operators, their development capabilities increase and adoption rates accelerate.’

Pace yourself to create pull and build momentum. The sequenced plan needs to include all the elements of the operating model- accountabilities and decision rights, management system, leadership and culture, talent practices, and the like.’

Source

Darrell Rigby, Sarah Elk, and Steve Berez (2020). Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos

Recruitthebest Daily Digest- Wisdom For Living

‘Joy is not happiness; it leaves outside the polarity of good and bad emotions. Joy is a profoundly existential birthright of being fully embodied, present, and alive.’

‘Don’t let your dreams obscure the joy that is already here.’

‘Wilderness is not a departure from sanity but a return to it.’

Authenticity is the willingness to be different, to be totally oneself, knowing you are part of the whole.’

All of life is a verb living itself through you, as you, around you. Just notice everything, all the invisible threads, all the communications, the relationships between things.’

‘The path to becoming more instinctual and thus more connected is to let yourself be more sensitive, not less.’

We are connection-starved. While acknowledging this is painful, it’s the first step toward our healing and reconnection.’

‘When we don’t take our place- or when we take our place with ambivalence- we deny the world our gifts.’

‘We cannot leap into the unknown without the grounded origins of our right footing.’

‘If we deliberately put our attention and energy on beingness throughout the day, our doing is infused with ease, delight, wisdom, and joy.’

Learning the difference between care and caretaking liberates us to powerfully in a way that does not cost us.’

Source: Kelly Wendorf (2020). Flying Lead Change: 56 Million Years of Wisdom for Leading Change