Executive Update

Making an Agile Transformation Stick: Behavioral Change at the Sharp End

Posted November 14, 2018 | Leadership |
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Much of the wisdom, books, academic papers, and so on, concerning Agile, focus at the team level. Yet an Agile transformation focuses on the adoption of Agile principles at the business or organizational level. Agile transformation, therefore, presents senior leaders with challenges they need to work out for themselves without such recommendations. The temptation is to reach out to their traditional business advisors; however, as this Executive Update illustrates, this may not be the optimal path.

About The Author
Jon Ward
Jon Ward is a Cutter Expert and a member of Arthur D. Little's AMP open consulting network. As CEO for Beneficial Consulting, he focuses on the cultural and transformational aspects of implementing Agile. Mr. Ward currently acts as an Agile catalyst, producing significant bottom-line results for software and business change initiatives. Using Lean-Agile techniques, he redesigns target operating models for efficiency and purpose, resulting in… Read More
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