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The Agile approach to delivering value to customers has been around for a while and has changed how software and other technologies are conceptualised, created, and released. But now, many organisations are using Agile for a different purpose – to drive their digital transformation.
So, why is Agile important in digital transformation? When a company wants to change their processes to have technology at its core, Agile can provide an excellent framework for getting rapid feedback and delivering value faster (delivering early and often, rather than a big bang release) through the use of iterations.
Read on to learn more about using Agile for digital transformation.
Agile provides a framework for companies that want to encourage digital transformation and create a cultural shift, bringing digital processes and technologies to the fore. These digital processes and new technologies allow companies to deliver more value to their clients faster, and with more transparency.
The Agile framework encourages companies to work in smaller iterations, adapting to regular customer feedback. This provides a much more effective customer experience and delivers value faster (early and often).
An Agile team understands the necessity for strong communication and understands the importance of honest and open feedback. Some argue that this is the most important part of digital transformation.
By keeping Sprint (iteration) lengths consistent, the organisation can predict how much can be delivered in a particular time frame and the teams doing the work have a better idea of how much can be achieved in each Sprint.
By encouraging early identification and confrontation of risks, Agile can help to avoid problems being discovered too late to take corrective action. This enables the plan to be adapted if necessary and helps to reduce the risk of dramatic failure.
Creating solutions that delight customers requires a degree of experimentation. Scrum enables the team to get rapid feedback and quickly zoom in on a solution that works well for customers and for the business. There must be a willingness to try, fail, quickly learn from mistakes, and adapt. Not only does this work to deliver value, but also encourages creativity within the team, leading to more innovation and flexibility.
Simply getting started with Agile and beginning the digital transformation journey is, arguably, one of the strongest challenges that businesses face. Not only do business leaders need to convince stakeholders and investors of this new approach, but must also swiftly break from traditional practices, whilst also installing new, unfamiliar practices across the business. As such, the team may be stuck in a pre-preparation stage for some time.
Simply learning the language and practices of Agile (such as Sprints) may cause confusion for some and go against the grain of your team’s experience. For example, dividing a huge project into smaller chunks may seem counterintuitive and wasteful for some, whereas the benefits to be gained by starting to deliver value faster and at a higher quality are well established
Another challenge of digital transformation is staffing your Agile teams. Whether a business hires internally or externally, team members need support to develop an Agile mindset and avoid being phased by constant revision, feedback, and transparency.
At ScrumCenter, we have in-depth experience in leading some of the largest and most successful Agile transformations in Europe. Every client is different, and it is our mission to help you develop your own Agile capability. We offer Agile Transformation Consulting, training and coaching to support your needs.
Agile is a collaborative approach for developing solutions that helps teams to deliver value faster. It takes an iterative approach, working in small increments, rather than one large launch. Through regular feedback, the team has the opportunity to respond and adapt to necessary changes quickly.
The Agile approach is a way of working that demonstrates a commitment to tight feedback cycles and continuous improvement, backed by the core elements of open communication, collaboration, adaptation, and trust.
Digital transformation is the process of a business changing its company culture, business practices, and customer experiences using digital technologies. Such processes help businesses to meet changing business, societal, and market requirements and move into the digital age.
Book a course with a Certified Scrum trainer, for example, ScrumCenter’s. After completion of the course, you will be sent a Scrum Alliance link to
Scrum “by the book” is very simple and it’s a great place to start, but teams that want to get outstanding results understand the journey has only just begun. The three pillars model can help your team on this journey by allowing you to maximise the effectiveness of each part of Scrum.
The three pillars of Scrum are transparency, inspection and adaptation. They can be used to “inspect and adapt” your Scrum implementation and set you and your team on the path to really excellent Scrum.
Measuring Agile Transformations Organisations run their agile transformations with teams staffed with trainers and coaches. They often track the progress of their work through the
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