With the world around us continuing to evolve and speed up, the need to quickly respond to an ever changing set of regulations, user demands, and emerging market disruptors made agile one of the most trendy movements for corporations around the globe. The reality is, Agile has been around for nearly two decades, so why aren’t there more success stories. Many are failing because they don’t have the appropriate conditions in place to enable them to succeed and are forcing it without doing the necessary pre-work to establish a foundation.
This discussion uses examples from people attempting a Health & Fitness transformation as a layman’s illustration for the struggles organizations attempting an agile transformation experience. In both cases there are people who are not ready to embark on their transformation, who disregard the obvious indicators and proceed anyway. These transformations are highly likely to fail and the individual or organization just ends up wasting a significant amount of money only to end up in the same or worse shape than they started.
The discussion concludes with a list of key conditions to look for and a recommendation on how to determine if your organization is ready to embark on an agile transformation. Whether trying to prepare for an upcoming transformation or get one that’s already in-flight back on track, you will leave with an understanding of what areas to address that will greatly increase your likelihood of realizing the successful organizational transformation you envisioned.
