Movement is coming for those of us that are changing the world! Based on our experiences, change agent programs need to be designed with the intent to build T-Shaped leaders – change agents who specialize in specific pillars/areas and enable the organization to achieve outcomes by improving the maturity within their specific areas of need. Here’s a quick video overview.

A holistic program to transform the critical roles that enable high-performing teams.

Accelerating Talent Development

Agile and new ways of working are impacting many roles across all levels. We’ve identified 5 key ones to target for 2020 in addition to specialized roles. Scrum Master, Product Owners/Product Managers, Agile Managers,  RTE/Program Managers, Coaches. Invest in these key roles so they can sustain and mature the teams they lead towards your agility journey. 

Curious about what people were reading, downloading and sharing in 2019? We’ve gathered a list of the most popular content, along with exciting new events and workshops to help you measure what matters and create a culture of continuous improvement at every level.

Welcome back! In the first part of this post, we saw how influential Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Tech Leads are when it comes to a team’s health. In this post, we’ll look further at the functional manager as well as whether various people’s confidence in the team is a good predictor of its health.

Conventional wisdom suggests that leadership is important in business, so naturally the various types of leaders in and around Agile teams are important in making the teams healthy and productive. Or are they? After all, Agile organizations are often far from conventional.At AgilityHealth, we are all about understanding Agile teams and what makes them healthy, which is what our SaaS product, AgilityHealth®, was created around. Since launching our platform, we have amassed thousands of Team Health surveys from tens of thousands of participants, which gives us a unique data set to really look deeply into what makes teams successful and healthy.

Evolving from “Agile Transformations” to “Enterprise Business Agility”
There is a noticeable shift and perhaps an evolution from focusing on Agile transformations, which aim to optimize delivery within IT, to enabling Enterprise Business Agility (EBA) – transformations where a more holistic strategy is needed to enable true Enterprise Agility both within technology and beyond.
Why? Simply put, focusing only on delivery optimization hasn’t achieved the intended business outcomes most executives and leaders were aiming for.

In a business context, agility is the ability of an organization to rapidly adapt to market and environmental changes in productive and cost-effective ways.

The adoption of business agility mindsets, structures, and practices is accelerating. Despite the hype, it’s more than a buzzword. It is a significant, yet nuanced, change in the ways companies operate. In today’s unpredictable economy, the benefits are clear.

A strategic intent is the north star or ambition of the organization over the next 3 years. These statements help bring clarity to the overall direction and can serve to energize and rally your organization around.  Questions to consider:

Insight and visibility at all levels of your organization
The business world is abuzz about business outcomes. You’ve skimmed the headlines, you’ve watched the videos, but you’re still scratching your head on how it all works and probably wondering ‘what’s in it for me?’

A lot of organizations are focused on outputs not outcomes – and they struggle to balance demand with capacity. This is why the largest and most successful companies on the planet are using business outcomes because they’re fast, measurable, and most importantly, they clear up confusion on what we’re doing and why. In a word: Alignment. When we’re all rowing the same way, we can get there in half the time and with less wasted energy.

Introducing the Agile Talent & HR Radar Assessment
We are so excited to bring you our newest radar that focuses on how the HR department enables and drives Agility within an organization. We believe that this domain within an organization is one of the most critical components of an Agile transformation. No matter which Agile framework you favor, one common theme has to take front and center and that is the people aspect of Agile – employees, teams, leadership, culture, change, etc. – are the oil that is required to ensure a well-oiled machine.