Evolving the Agile Organization [1]: Organizational Design and Culture - Culture Change An important ingredient for organizational Agility

Question 1

What is culture in an org?

Answer 1

• “The ideas, customs, and social behavior of a particular people or society.”
• the way a team or org responds, we related it to their culture

Question 2

Does an organisation’s culture contribute towards successful Agile adoption?

Answer 2

Yes, significantly

• A team and org’s culture impact how well they pick up/do Scrum - e.g. culture of feature can prevent team from adapting or failing early
  
  • Prevents “Culture of Agility”

Question 3

How can management encourage an Agile culture?

Answer 3

• self-organization teams,
• continuous improvement,
• frequent delivery,
• effective communication,
• adapting to the changing environment, etc

Question 4

How does org change its culture?

Answer 4

• examine existing practices critically
• try new ways of doing things
• create new opps
• commitment and nurturing at all levels within org

Question 5

Key characteristics of orgs who successfully adopted Agile

Answer 5

• • Team members demonstrate values like Trust, Respect, Courage, Openness, Confidence, Synergy, Unity, Affiliation, and Commitment.
  • Creativity, Collaboration, Emergence, Rhythm, Empiricism, and Discovery are encouraged organization-wide.
  • Embracing Transparency, Inspection, and Adaptation as part of everyday routine.

Question 6

What does an org need to have a culture shift?

Answer 6

• patience
• full top down support
• constant learning
• bottom up intelligence

Question 7

What is bottom up intelligence?

Answer 7

• Bottom-up intelligence means inspecting and adapting progress at the point where skilled work is done, such that empirical evidence can be acted upon by development teams in the timeliest manner.
• Outcomes and indicators from validated learning may then be fed upwards to stakeholders.