Introduction
This blog explains about how agile led transformation can help
in integrating people, process and technology in organization. These play significant
role in transformation and its very important that organizations should
maintain proper balance in people, process and technology.
About Agile
Agile is more than process ,framework or methodology to organizations. Its passage
to getting in to new era of delivery and execution from old traditional way.
Agile helps teams to deliver result faster compared to older ways of execution.
The big differentiator with Agile compared to other methodologies resides in
its four values defined in AGILE manifesto.
·
Individuals and Interactions Over Processes and
Tools.
·
Working Software Over Comprehensive
Documentation.
·
Customer Collaboration Over Contract Negotiation
·
Responding to Change Over Following a Plan.
With above values agile teams can deliver results faster
with significant quality and predictability. In agile teams are cross
functional, collaborative and self-organizing. Focus is given to
responsibility rather than roles. Agile
helps organizations to execute projects with more transparent ways. In Agile
projects, all stakeholders are closely engaged and able to see the team’s progress throughout execution. The close engagement of
stakeholder allows them to have more clarity of the project schedule, budget,
resources allocation and utilization. This helps them to predict the output of
the project in very early stages of the project.
Agile allows the change during the project execution and this
is one of the key advantage to customers. In previous older methods this was
one of the key blocker. Customers are allowed to prioritize the development
tasks as per their current needs and add additional important tasks which were
missed in initial stages.
Agile Transformation
Current organizations structure is more rigid and making it
difficult to successfully implement agile with its full potential. The three
pillars, people, process and technology are important factors for organization
change. Transforming these pillars to agility can allow organizations to
transform them from old traditional way to Agile led transformation.
Now a days all organizations are heavily investing for Agile
transformation. Before moving to agility, it’s very important for any organization
to understand the key strengths of their business and how agile can help in
improving it. Agile is better suited for IT and its related businesses. It’s
hard to suit the Agile for construction industries where things need to be
executed in sequence and hardly changes are accepted in execution.
The three important pillars of the organization
for Agile transformation
A true Agile
transformation can be completed, when you integrate the, people, process and
technology pillars. The integrated pillars will be more effective and result
oriented and you will be able to create the knowledge enabled organization.
Agile
is suitable for IT industries but it’s equally important to implement it in
appropriate way to be successful. The three pillars discussed above plays vital
role in the transformation and if those transferred without any pause or halt with
maintaining the balance then its possible to transform organisation to Agile
Peoples
People are important asset of the organization and its
equally important to have right people in the organization. To bring the agile
culture in organization people plays very essential role. It’s important for organization
to handle people very delicate way to bring change. It’s very easy to kick out
peoples but it takes several years to bring right peoples in organization.
Organizations need to
work on the activities to create positive attitude in peoples mind. It’s
essential that people should have right skill and confidence to use those to drive
organization in right direction.
Organization need to create trustable environment among peoples and similar
thought process to implement agile in effective way.
These organizations promote and sustain an environment where
people share what they think others need to know because there is high trust
and a partnering mindset. Leadership demands collaboration and measures
performance by it.
Below are few important guidelines that will help to work on
people pillar to transform the
organization to agility.
1.
Enable people and create leadership strategies
2.
Allow environment in the organization for change
3.
Enable effective communication and collaboration
between people
4.
Focus on creating positive attitude with similar
mindset
Process
Every organization run with certain processes and that helps
them to achieve their goal in systematic way. Its not easy to execute the
operations in organization without help of processes. Process play principal
role in smooth executions of operations.
Organizations are adopting various processes with its
related standards and training their people to follow the process in their day
to day operations. The continuous improvement of the process is very important
and improved process needs to be adopted in operation without any delay.
Any organization’s prime focus is to keep their customer
happy and satisfactory and it can be achieved by providing expected quality
result on time. To deliver the quality results on time it necessary to follow
standard result oriented processes.
1.
Prepare positive attitude people and make them
ready to adopt change
2.
Both technology and peoples must be flexible to
accept the process and change in process
3.
Process must be in continuous improvement mode
in order map current need of organization
Technology
Technology is essential for organization to drive the
successful business and in IT business its one of the core part. Organizations
are regularly updating their skill set as per customers requirement to deliver
the expected output.
Organizations should always focus on people and their
collective knowledge are secure, visible and easily accessible. There should be
common knowledge base pool where people can upload the knowledgeable information
and can easily download. Automation and digitization of process helps lot in
day to day operations and that makes all tasks straight and easy. The industry
standard practices must need to be followed to bring the quality output.
The guidelines to work on technology pillar are as below.
1.
Choose technology which is flexible enough to
adopt the process
2.
Technology should be easy to use and
user-friendly
3.
Plan long term architectural strategies in
technology
Conclusion
Agile transformation can be carried out by working together
hand in hand with three pillars, people, process and technology. Its impossible
to transform organization without having proper balance in these three pillars.
