If businesses want to stay competitive and relevant, they will need to be able to adapt and respond at an enterprise scale. This will mean responding to customers’ changing needs, maintaining communication throughout the process, providing customisable solutions, supporting teams, shifting mindsets, and inspiring Agile ways of working outside of software and IT teams.
Unfortunately however, without a clear plan or framework, it can be incredibly difficult for companies to predict delivery, manage cross-team dependencies, and focus on their business objectives. The downfall of not meeting these points could lead to a decline in customer satisfaction, loss of market share or revenue, and more. It is therefore paramount that organisations spend time to strategically assess their business objectives and make an informed decision on what framework would suit them best.
The risks associated with failing to address market-related issues is therefore one of the motivations for why companies have begun to invest heavily in Agile, as to gain the benefits of scaling Agile frameworks in order to remain competitive. The tricky part however comes in when determining how to do it and what it actually looks like; agreeing on the need for scaling Agile frameworks is the easy part.
In essence, Agile at scale is the ability to drive Agile at the team level, while applying the same principles, practices, and outcomes at other layers of the organisation. You could also look at
scaling Agile frameworks as a cultural transformation, since business’ people, practices, and tools are required to commit to improving collaboration, and the organisation’s ability to execute its strategy.
Effective change in these areas will help teams and the organisation achieve:
🚀 Decentralised decision-making.
🚀 Enhanced transparency and alignment.
🚀 Increased speed to market.
🚀 Hard coding the values of Agile into organisation.
So, What Are The Goals of Scaling Agile Practices Across and Entire Organisation?
The first rule of scaling is that we do not need to scale if we do not need to. However if the organisation needs to scale, then it’s all about:
🚀 How do we build alignment?
🚀 How do we ensure alignment across a customer’s journey and their needs?
🚀 How do we meet the needs of the organisation?
🚀 How do we ensure that have a sustainable, profitable and customer-centric business?
The Most Popular Framework For Scaling Agile: SAfe
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a set of organisation and workflow patterns for implementing agile practices at an enterprise scale. It was formed around three primary bodies of knowledge: Agile Software Development, Lean Product Development, and Systems Thinking.
SAFe promotes:
🚀 Alignment
🚀 Collaboration
🚀 Delivery across large numbers of agile teams.
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At Value Glide, through the application of SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), we are able to offer agile consulting, agile coaching, and agile training specialists who work with organisations to align business objectives with customer needs and wants.
As deeply experienced agile coaches and practitioners, our team is invested in continuous learning through each client engagement and uses the data and evidence we gather from each implementation to inform our training, coaching, and consulting services.
In a nutshell, empirical process control or empiricism.
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