Large companies (Banks, Insurance, and Telecom) in our community have been on their Agile Transformation journey over the past 4 to 5 years, implementing Agile in various pockets of the organization. Leaders have made significant investments of time and money on this journey and are now facing the challenge of articulating tangible benefits of the transformation and would like to measure the efficacy of the transformation.

Basically, they are asking Is Agile Working?

While there is no one simple answer to this seemingly innocuous question, we have from our experience working with these different clients devised a process that has helped us with answering this question.

In this session, we would like to share the three step process which we hope will help you.

• Firstly, we start with identifying the personas in the organization who are asking the question. And in our experience, we have identified (at least) four major personas that work for this scenario.
• Secondly, we identify the business objectives and outcomes that these personas want to achieve. This involves multiple workshops and sessions with these personas to identify their objectives and outcomes.
• Finally, we introduce a 3 * 3 matrix based on the organization lens (personas) and the maturity of Agile capabilities in the organization

The three step process identified above has proven to work irrespective of the industry it is being used in and provides a comprehensive and structured way to answer the important questions that an organization faces during the transformation. This process and the accompanying tool provided enable executives to make data backed decisions on the areas to focus on next in the transformation.

Large organizations are facing continuous and increasing disruptions from both the startup space as well as their current competitors. Older business models, processes and tools can no longer keep pace with changing market conditions. While most organizations have identified these challenges and the need for the change to a more agile model, many of them face significant challenges in adopting agile in their organizations.

In our experience, delivery execution using Agile is understood clearly. However, phases before execution, such as Ideation or Discovery, are a large black box and usually entails some form of waterfall thinking e.g. siloed inception phase.

We would like to share our experiences exploring the black box of pre-execution work in enterprises using LEGO. Some of the key components that will be explored through this workshop are:

• Team formation
• Product roadmap & vision
• Governance & Controls

In this workshop we aim to provide a clear understanding of the process from ideation to execution. Throughout the workshop we will be constantly reinforcing fundamental agile concepts such as continuous improvement, fast feedback, and close collaboration between business & technology.