AGILE MATURITY LEVELS GUIDE

Maturity Level IT Project/Initiative-Specific Business Agility

Pre-Crawl -
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Little or no use of automated tools to test, deliver, and maintain software code
Data migrations are manual and undocumented
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Siloed operations
Command and control management
- Initiatives are poorly planned
and/or ad-hoc
- Infrequent releases - No business architecture - Mistakes are punished
- No real tracking of defects - No/few documented processes -Keeping everyone busy is important
- Business and IT are “at odds” - Success based on individual performance
Or Backwards - Massive and formal requirements documents - No measurements

- Agile frameworks are learned and one or more are implemented

Crawl - Requirements documented - Work has a quantifiable value
- Some automation of testing/development/integration - Value is used to justify, prioritize, and fund work
- Data migrations are manual and undocumented - Work is transparent and there is a shared understanding of it
- Some management of solution requirements - Some metrics are tracked
- Infrequent releases
Repeatable - Tracking of defects in place
- Unacceptable level of defects

Walk - Agile principles are applied - Agile principles and values are embraced at the business level
- Agile frameworks are being adjusted to the organization - Strategic goals have incremental checkpoints to ensure that all work aligns with the
- Consistent automated build and testing organizational goals
- Good management of dependencies and risks - Management is moving to servant-leadership
- Reusability of scripts, tests, and tools
Consistency

- Value-based metrics are built, measured, and acted upon

Run - Release and rollback processes tested
- All business outcomes have relative targets and regular measures (including
non-financial measures)
- Deployment managed - Work, projects, and/or products are started up, pivoted, or stopped easily
- Application monitored and proactively managed
- Non-functional requirements defined and measured
Manage by - Databases are monitored and optimized

Measured Value

- Frequent collaboration between teams to discuss integrations and automation effectiveness

Fly
- Adaptive funding models are used to allocate funds against value streams
- Fast feedback loops (defects found and fixed quickly)
- Governance is aligned to value delivery
- Experimentation and innovation encouraged
- A systems thinking approach to the business is embraced
- Full automation and virtualization used where applicable
- Work, systems, and value streams are visualized and managed
- DevOps environment
- Risks managed effectively
Optimized based on - Production roadblocks are rare
Value + Innovation - Loose coupling of design and architecture

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