Scaling Agile Across Business Functions

Delivering on the promise of business Agility

Melissa Reeve
VP, Marketing

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What are we going to cover?

How we got to today

What challenges do we have when scaling across business functions?

Three components to consider when scaling across functions

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 How did we get here?

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Value doesn’t flow through silos

Systems Hardware Software Test & QA Operations

Engineering

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Agile helps!

Cross-functional teams

Focus on collaboration

Fast feedback

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Scaling Agile

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 What challenges do we have?

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Value doesn’t flow through silos

Agile Agile Agile Agile Agile Agile

IT Marketing Sales Legal Finance HR

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Many types of Agile Manifestos have emerged…

Agile for Finance

Agile HR Manifesto

Agile Service Manifesto

Agile Sales Manifesto

Agile Marketing Manifesto

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Many scaling frameworks stop at the function

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 Three concepts to consider

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Three components to consider

Lean-Agile Leadership

Organizing Around Value

Organizational Agility

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 Lean-Agile Leadership

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Lean-Agile Leadership

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Lean-Agile Leadership

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Lean-Agile Leadership

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Lean-Agile Leadership

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 Organizing Around Value

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How do we achieve Agility without creating Agile silos?

Agile Agile Agile Agile Agile Agile

IT Marketing Sales Legal Finance HR

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Operational Value Streams

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Identify the value streams

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Identify the people and the systems

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People from across the organization

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Form cross functional teams or teams-of-teams

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 Organizational Agility

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Organizational Agility

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Lean Thinking People and Agile Teams

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Lean Business Operations

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Lean Thinking People and Agile Teams

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 In Summary

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Flow on the IT side is maturing nicely

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We’re still figuring out how this looks in the business

Agile Agile Agile Agile Agile Agile

IT Marketing Sales Legal Finance HR

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But we have some concepts to address these challenges

Lean-Agile Leadership

Organizing Around Value

Organizational Agility

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THANK YOU!

Melissa Reeve
VP, Marketing

melissa.reeve@scaledagile.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissamreeve/

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