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Enterprise Agile Transformation
Agile Transformation Strategy refers to a structured approach to implementing agile methodologies across an entire organization, typically with the goal of improving speed, flexibility, and innovation. This can involve a comprehensive change in the organization’s culture, processes, and practices, and may require significant investment in training, coaching, and technology.
But leaders are often frustrated by their Agile Transformation Implementations not producing the expected results:
- Development has improved, but overall delivery time is still too long or unpredictable.
- Quality has suffered and not recovered to expectations even though a development pipeline has been created.
- It is unclear where the bottlenecks are.
- How much value is being delivered to the business? Is value defined?
- Who is actually responsible for and empowered to optimize the entire end-to-end process?
OUR PROCESS
A consistent process is the key to success. We follow a proven blueprint to set goals and plan, implement, scale and improve your Agile deployment. Each implementation we do is customized to the needs, structure and goals of your organization.
What is value stream?
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.
“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.