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Organizational Transformation

Want to do an Agile Transformation? Don’t. Focus on Flow, Quality, Happiness, Safety and Value

Embrace agility by focusing on flow, quality, and value to drive transformation.

Jonathan Smart
Jul 21, 2018 • 8 min read
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Advanced
Agile Culture
Agile Transformation
Change
Leadership Change
Organizational Change

Summary

This resource explores the pitfalls of a rigid Agile Transformation and emphasizes the importance of focusing on flow, quality, happiness, safety, and value. It presents a series of anti-patterns and patterns, highlighting the need for intrinsic motivation and context-sensitive approaches. The content draws from extensive experience in implementing agile, lean, and other methodologies across a large, regulated enterprise. It urges organizations to start with 'why' and focus on outcomes, offering insights into achieving organizational agility.

Takeaways

  • Avoid imposing rigid Agile Transformations; tailor approaches to context.
  • Emphasize intrinsic motivation by fostering autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
  • Empower teams to experiment and continuously improve.
  • Focus on flow, quality, happiness, safety, and value to achieve true agility.
  • Start with a clear 'why' and desired outcomes to guide change efforts.
  • Agile transformations should not be implemented in a mandatory approach
  • It's essential for organizations to understand WHY they need a change and know HOW to approach it prior to making the transition. This helps put off anti-patterns like resistance to change by the employees.
  • Leaders should consider what motivates employees and value them as well during a transformation to mitigate anti-patterns.

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