Agile: The challenges
Many of our customers today scale agile beyond the team. These customers use Jira Software to power their teams and connect teams using tools like Advanced Roadmaps and Jira Align. It’s easy to become complacent and lose sight of the true power of investment agility across multiple areas of the organization. Unencumbered investment agility allows organizations to quickly respond to market changes, drive shared ownership for the quality of product or service and uphold quality standards.
After years of collaboration and knowledge-sharing across our large network of enterprise customers and partners, we have discovered a list of key systemic issues that prevent teams and organizations from being successful with investment and enterprise-level agility.
What symptoms do you see on the left that resonate with your organization? Ask yourself, if you have been focused on addressing the symptoms instead of the root cause? If so, we’ll be digging into practices and products to focus your efforts on to the right outcomes.
Symptoms | Root Cause |
|---|---|
• Confusion about what success looks like for all levels of the organization • Few people understand why they need to change the way they work • No time for innovation or experimentation | • Lack of a strategic approach to agile transformation • Lack of coaching and training on practices • Traditional leadership styles |
• Project driven delivery and mindset • To many competing priorities • Measuring performance based on utilization versus business value | • Outdated funding models • Lack of product mindset • Organization is not structured appropriately to plan and execute in an agile way |
• Related information is segregated across disparate sources • Difficult to manage dependencies • Majority of people are unaware of how their work impacts the business | • Lack governance and standardized use of tools • Work is not prioritized and then connected at each level |
• Low transparency across teams with common goals • Lack of predictability to make timely investment decisions • Heavy bureaucracy, adverse desire to replan or implement valuable feedback | • Lack of minimal standardization • Wasteful standardization or governance |
• Tools do not support desired practices • Change fatigue • No celebrations to highlight wins | • Lack of budget allocated for change management • No champions to keep people motivated through tough times |
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