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Agile on QUBE – The Perfect Solution for Organisational Transformation

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You’ll have noticed that the pace of change is accelerating. You’ll have noticed that complexity is being matched by increasing ambiguity. You’ll have noticed that you need to get things done and delivered BEFORE the opportunity evaporates. Doing what got you here, in the way it used to work, won’t get you there. How do you make change in a new, flexible fast way when your traditional, proven methods let you down?

In our World After Midnight where it’s harder and harder to define WHAT has to be delivered and HOW it is to be done many people, like you, have decided to adopt Agile Methods. There is a real and growing rush:

  • Agile Usage: 46% of companies used agile or its hybrid variance. (Source: PMI’s Pulse of the Profession 2018)
  • Visibility: 76% opted for agile tools to gain better clarity. (Source: Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise)

BUT THERE IS A PROBLEM

Wholesale transformation to a different operating model is complex, time consuming, requires fortitude and will often mean things get worse before they get better. In many cases AGILE NOT THE TRANSITION JOURNEY GETS THE BLAME and organisations fall back on old world behaviour. Follow one of our famous bubble diagrams to work out where you are on your journey.

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Change execution is critical to success but difficult

Organisations are grappling with how to successfully execute change in a complex world. Organisations now live or die based on their ability to deliver change rapidly, with high success rates, yet old world methods no longer work

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It is difficult to implement process change at scale

Changing organisation wide approaches is extremely hard and fraught with risks. Most change programmes of this nature fail not because it is the wrong thing to do, but because the organisation loses patience

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Good change management approaches are vital

So good change management approaches are vital yet there is no recipe or one size fits all solution. It is not obvious where to start

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Agile could be the solution we need

Agile is gaining traction as the go to solution for many organisations, because its approaches fit to the digital, complex, fast changing world in which we now operate

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Our agile pilot was successful so we scaled it up

The pilot with enthusiastic adopters worked well, delivered the expected benefits, so based on that the agile transformation programme is launched organisation wide

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Geographic and organisational barriers introduce friction

Agile approaches rely on close collaboration of the teams and product owners. Yet it soon becomes clear that the organisation is geographically and organisationally distributed and there is no easy, cost-effective way to bring people together. This starts to introduce friction and projects start to fail. Agile starts to take the blame for the failures rather than the real cause

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Unrealistic management expectations of benefit realisation

The pilot was a great success, but once the programme scales there is less enthusiasm, not enough experts to coach new teams, cynicism about the approach etc. The pace is not what was sold to senior management!

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Organisation starts formal tracking of milestones and benefits

Because of a perceived lack of progress senior management becomes concerned and starts requesting clear road maps, milestones and realised benefits from the change team to demonstrate steady progress with the agile implementation. The irony is that the agile transformation programme is now following a waterfall process…

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Command & control approach leads to team resistance

As the organisation slips back into command and control, teams start to hide the truth and report what they think senior management want to hear

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Individual reticence grows

People start to fear agile as something that will take them out of their comfort zone because of the difficulty implementing it. If they are seen to support it will label them. And let’s face it our approach has worked for the last 20 years so what’s the issue?

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Organisational resistance to change increases

The programme is in trouble and agile is getting the blame for everything. People start to distance themselves from the programme or actively try to scupper it

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AGILE BECOMES FRAGILE!!

What started as a great idea to change the way the organisation approaches change execution has gone really wrong. Agile is blamed, yet the root causes lie in the implementation not in an agile approach itself. The organisation reverts back to the old approaches and the transformation programme team is disbanded. Agile has become fragile….

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Agile-on-QUBE – Your solution to these challenges

Agile-on-QUBE makes what would normally be impossible, really simple.

Agile-on-QUBE can save any Agile programme.

Agile-on-QUBE can save your Agile programme.

You can have it both ways. Deliver your Agile Transformation and take full advantage of all the Thought and Assumptions of the Agile Manifesto.

On QUBE you will have:

  • Instant access to some of the best coaches and scrum masters in the world
  • Agile tools and techniques available to everyone
  • Virtual product and scrum rooms (we call them Qubicles) that enable co-location regardless of geographic distribution
  • Infinite numbers of (virtual) sticky notes and whiteboard space, this means that you never lose anything and have a complete audit trail
  • Instant connection to your own experts for rapid query resolution
  • Access for all your key stakeholders to ensure their in depth engagement

Read the “When your Agile becomes Fragile“ blog by  Eddie Obeng PhD.

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