This document discusses using an "Agile Flight Path" analogy to help organizations plan and monitor their enterprise-wide agile transformations. It describes agile adoption as having distinct stages like taxiing, take-off, climbing, and cruising, with initiatives in areas like scrum practices, engineering practices, and culture change. A chart shows the broad areas to address and expected progression over time. The Agile Flight Path is also used like a kanban board to visually track each project team's stage of agile adoption based on a self-assessment instrument.
2. Enterprise Agile Transformation
In our consulting/coaching engagements with several
organizations on Agile Transformation, we have seen
that organizations struggle to have a roadmap for the
enterprise-wide transformation and scaling up
What all the areas to address?
Where to begin?
What are the sequence of initiatives/activities to take up?
How to monitor progress of overall transformation?
Agile Flight Path analogy has been useful in these
contexts both for the Scrum teams and for the
management team
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3. Typical Agile adoption journey
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Release, Sprint cycles
Structure (Scrum Teams, Roles)
Scrum practices, artifacts
Engineering Practices
Culture change (behaviors, collaboration, self-organizing)
Value,Maturity
This chart shows the broad areas to address and what to
expect over a time line during the Agile transformation
journey
Data driven practices (sizing, velocity,…)
Change takes
time; Needs
perseverance
4. Agile Flight Path
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Taxiing Runway
Take-off
Climbing
Cruising
Orbit change
Scrum
Practices
Engineering
Practices
Data driven
Practices
Culture
change
Scrum Team
Structures in
place
Product Backlog,
Release Planning,
Sprint Planning
done
Sprint 0
activities
started
Scrum
ceremonies
happening
5. Agile Flight Path – Kanban Board
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Taxiing Runway
Take-off
Climbing
Cruising
Orbit change
Scrum
Practices
Engineering
Practices
Data driven
Practices
Culture
change
Proj1
Proj4
Proj8
Proj2
Proj5
Proj3
Proj9
Proj6
Proj7
Agile Flight Path is used like a Kanban
board to indicate the enterprise wide
Agile adoption progress – which
projects are in which stage. An
assessment instrument is used to
characterize the adoption stages.
Project teams do the self-assessment
using this instrument.