Balancing Autonomy with Accountability
Discover the balance between autonomy and accountability in agile transformations.
Nov 18, 2018
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5 min read
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Intermediate
Culture Building
Organizational Alignment
Organizational Culture
Organizational Strategy
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Summary
Many organizations are transitioning to agile ways of working to enhance speed and customer focus. However, a common pitfall is increasing autonomy without accountability, leading to operational challenges. This resource explores the importance of balancing these elements to ensure successful agile adoption. It highlights real-world examples and offers insights into maintaining governance and management in an agile environment. Engage with this material to learn how to foster a culture where autonomy and accountability coexist harmoniously.
Takeaways
- Avoid 'Cupcake Agile' by ensuring business acumen in agile transformations.
- Balance autonomy with accountability to prevent operational disruptions.
- Governance should evolve to focus on value, risk, and learning.
- Managers must transition from task allocation to people development.
- Transparency and regular updates are crucial in agile practices.
- Autonomy and accountability should work in tandem to stir the organizations towards great results.
- Increasing autonomy and failure to exert accountability in an organization could lead to poor deliverance of fatal information from the customers to the executives.
- Many organizations are embracing agile ways of working in an attempt to build faster, more customer-focused, and resilient organizations through autonomy.