Pulling all the ideas together from this article series, I want to leave you with a couple of key thoughts when you are trying to design your agile organization:
- When designing your next organizational structure, keep in mind that the target for your organization should be the Ideal Team Structure. The journey may take months or years, but you need to organize your teams to bring the opportunity to incrementally reach this target.
- Don’t avoid the inevitable disruption that a move from waterfall process to agile frameworks will bring. The impacts of the disruption won’t last for long and the benefits of doing business in an agile way will pay dividends quickly.
- Agile frameworks require thoughtful construction of an organization that maximizes delivery flow. Maximum delivery flow breaks out when the development teams are directly connected to the Business Intent Generators (BIG’s) and you don’t need multiple teams to turn intent into delivered solutions.
- These articles represent some agile team patterns. Your organization will most likely need one, many, or a hybrid of these patterns to be successful. If you have not had experience with scaled agile methods and how to design your organization for true business transformation, hire a solid enterprise agile coach to help you acheive maximum benefits. You won’t regret it!
This completes this series on Team Design Patterns and I hope you found it useful and informative. Please post a comment to let know.
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