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Agile Maturity Assessment
The assessment typically involves a review of the organization's Agile practices, processes, and culture, as well as interviews with key stakeholders to understand their perspectives on the organization's Agile maturity.
An Agile maturity assessment is a process that helps organizations evaluate their current level of Agile adoption and identify areas for improvement. Here are some general steps involved in an Agile maturity assessment:
- Define the Assessment Criteria: First, you need to determine the criteria for the assessment. This can include factors such as Agile processes, team structure, collaboration, and Agile mindset. You can also use an Agile maturity model like the Agile Maturity Model (AMM) or the Agile Maturity Matrix (AMM) to guide your assessment.
- Gather Data: Once you have defined the assessment criteria, you need to gather data from your teams and stakeholders. This can include surveys, interviews, observations, and documentation reviews. You can use tools like Jira, Trello, or other Agile project
- Analyze the Data: Once you have gathered the data, you need to analyze it to identify patterns and trends. This can help you identify areas of strength and weakness in your Agile implementation.
- Identify Improvement Opportunities: Based on the analysis, you can identify improvement opportunities and prioritize them based on their impact and feasibility. This can involve creating an Agile transformation roadmap that outlines the steps needed to improve your Agile maturity level.
- Implement Improvements: Once you have identified the improvement opportunities, you need to implement them. This can involve providing training and coaching to teams, improving collaboration and communication, and adopting new Agile practices and tools.
- Monitor Progress: Finally, it is important to monitor progress to ensure that the improvements are having the desired effect. This can involve regular retrospectives, metrics tracking, and ongoing assessment to ensure that your Agile implementation is continuously improving. An Agile maturity assessment can help your organization identify opportunities for improvement and ensure that your Agile implementation is aligned with your organizational goals.
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“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a value stream, you don’t know what you’re doing.”
- KAREN MARTIN AND MIKE OSTERLING
A Value Stream is simply the sequence of all of the activities that an organization takes to deliver on a customer need — and all of the people, systems, and resources required to do those activities.
The term Value Stream originated in the Lean manufacturing movement to describe and optimize how material and information flows. Customers may be external or internal, and are whoever receives the value created by the Value Stream. The concept of Value Streams is foundational to the Project to Product movement and SAFe, as well as essential to any Agile and DevOps transformation. So how is this seemingly simple concept different from a traditional approach to business process and organization? Most organizations today are not organized around the flow of value and are instead organized into functional silos, each working on different slices of value in an asynchronous fashion. The way work is delivered may be known and documented, but the organization isn’t aligned to it or focused on optimizing that value flow.
Value Stream Management (VSM) transforms the organization by moving beyond siloed, isolated departments and temporal project teams, to high-performing Agile and DevOps teams and teams-of-teams, working together, minimizing hand-offs and dependencies, and focused on relentless improvement across the organization.