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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

Mike Cottmeyer was recently a guest on the Agile to Agility podcast with Miljan Bajic where he discussed Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling. What do you do with planning cadences? What do you do with Enterprise Architecture like, the whole thing, right? Listen now. Agile to Agility Website.

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What Is An Agile Organization?

Leading Agile

It’s not enough to have a ration of Sprint Planning and a slice of Jira and then call ourselves Agile. However, most impediments are knowable, predictable, and can be approached in a planful way. Build the plan, tell people what to do, and micromanage each task along the way. Overcoming our Barriers.

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Agile Transformation is a Journey

Leading Agile

You know, we come in and we take a look at the organizational design, we look at the business architecture, the product model hierarchies. We look at the technology architecture. And you can create an operating model that is team-based with lightweight, flow-based governance at the program and portfolio layer.

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Overcoming Resistance to Change in Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

So, you’re going to need a better plan of attack. Many organizations we encounter operate in functional silos, have traditional PMOs, and rigid governance and control structures. Imagine a world where the business architecture, business capability model, domain-driven design, product architecture, and key strategies are in alignment.

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Seeing Your Vision

Leading Agile

Pragmatically, we expect the plan, the roadmap to get there, to adapt to emerging environments and opportunities. Your organizational structures, decision-making frameworks, governance, and metrics will all need to be evaluated to ensure alignment and coherence with the vision.

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 Executive’s Guide To Large-Scale Agile Transformation & Sustaining An Adaptive Enterprise w/ Mike Cottmeyer

Leading Agile

What does it look like when we’re trying to figure out how to do agile governance? Not only at the team level, but at the program level at the portfolio level, at the strategy level, like at the macro level of governance and that was kind of the problem that we really set off to solve. Here’s how you do sprint planning.

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A Change Model for Moving Legacy Systems Into the Cloud

Leading Agile

So leading Agile brings this idea of business capability, architecture, teaming strategies, flow-based governance, ultimately starting with business capabilities, but ultimately organizing around value streams, incremental and iterative transformation. We put a heavy amount of orchestration on top of anticipating.

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