Why Do Agile Transformations Fail?

If you want to be successful at Agile Transformation -especially at scale-you’ll need more than Agile Coaches teaching your teams the ceremonies of Scrum or how to do SAFe and LeSS. Why? Because the #1 reason Agile Transformations fail in large organizations is that they aren’t set up with the…

What is Agile governance? Simply put, Agile governance is a way to maximize the flow of value within an organization in the fastest way possible. Seems straightforward, and it is when you’re applying it inside a relatively new and small organization. …

Recorded By Dave Prior In this week’s episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Senior Consultant, Matthew Oatts joins me to talk about what to do when you are placed in a leadership role, but not given a lot of clarity on what you are specifically supposed to do or how you are…

Recorded with Dave Prior and Mike Cottmeye Agile Transformation is more than just installing Agile processes or Agile principles. It’s more than simply training your team on Agile methodology. But if that’s the case, then what is the actual path to becoming an Agile organization? You must create the conditions…

We’re exploring why we use the term working, tested product to broaden the scope of what Agile can do and how it can be applied in any business context. One of the foundations of Agile is that you must be consistently producing a working, tested increment of software-or product- at…

Desired business outcomes are unique to each organization or business. They depend on the software or product they produce and their audience or market. The goal of adopting Agile is always about achieving the desired business outcome unique to the organization that is pursuing it. The six most common desired…

Written by Jeff Hoover I was thinking about how different LeadingAgile’s pair-programming (more simply, pairing) interview is from other interviews, like many interviews at the big tech-giant companies we all know about. Interviews at these massive tech companies are known for being difficult ordeals. There are even courses designed to…

Many teams that operate within Agile are struggling. The story is the same for an abundance of them-the Backlogs from which they operate fail to provide clarity on priority, definition, and scope. …

An Agile Delivery Model will only take you so far. Many organizations simply go through the motions of Scrum. The teams are diligently having their daily standups, rigorously writing user stories, and dutifully performing a retro at the end of every sprint. Yet, they still fail to improve. …