Tools & Technology
Focuses on Process, Tools and Technology that helps in
problem solving that organizations can rely and trust upon. However it is
noticed that organizations focusses more on technology rather than any other
aspect.There are some good software tools like Active Collab,JIRA Agile,Agile
Bench,Pivotal Tracker,Telerik TeamPulse, VersionOne,Planbox,LeanKit and
frameworks like Scrum,Kanban,XP that helps organizations and teams identifying
the issues and help solving them and creating successful projects. However, the
entire transition gets hampered due to some key factors that are missing.
Organizational Structure
This emphasis on enterprise, organizational and
physical structure of a company. Having multiple levels of decision making
may slow down the transformational efforts within an organization. Having
Centralized decision making is one other key aspect responsible for the delay
in transition. When talking about the structure of an organization, it is quite
difficult for teams to collaborate in organizations where the shared resources
are placed in remote locations or are preferred to be kept only at specific
locations. This will affect a team’s chemistry and co-ordination. Having a
strong organizational design will improve the chances of an organization being
better in what they do. It is preferred to have the teams co-located and have
access to the required resources.
Leadership
Any company needs managers who lead by example. This is
because leadership improves the company's prospects and enables the
manager to assign money, time, or people to the organization, resulting in
adopting Agile easily. When Agile is being adopted properly, the Agile
methodology grows and thrives in the organization and the company moves
progressively in all its departments.
“Proper transition efforts
need proper leadership”
People
Any organization is built by employees and the type of progress the
organization makes depends solely on them. For employees to work together as a
team with new ideas and efforts, they need to be physically on the same floor.
Individual employees will react differently to the proposed changes and may
lead to uncomfortable situations or challenges. For this, the organization will
need energetic and motivated professionals to make the Agile transition.
That will be people with energy and enthusiasm but with low egos.
“That's the key to making a
successful transition happen.”
Culture
This is the most influential success factor. Typically, culture is also the
most difficult one to change because any organization takes years to develop
one. A professional can solve this problem by first analyzing what the
challenges are and then design an appropriate response to the situation. Agile
works appropriately with a collaborative and team-based culture where the
people are clear in sharing thoughts and ideas and not afraid to make mistakes.
The way forward
“For an Agile transition to be successful , organizations must fall in line
with these top 5 factors that we have outlined above. Leaders who are driving
the transition must change the ways in which they work, optimize resources and
employees, maintain their infrastructure, avoid micromanagement, and let people
interact with each other. Once these are taken care of, the rest will fall into
place, leading to a successful Agile transformation”
