GUIDE TO BUILDING

AN AGILE
ORGANIZATION

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 1 Balancing efficiency and innovation with agility 03
2 Adapt corporate strategies 04

3 Reasons to adopt agile practices 05

4 Greater benefits of business agility 06

5 Other benefits of adopting agile management 06
6 Success and metrics of agile management 07

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 Balancing Efficiency and Innovation
with Agility
The pathways to becoming an agile enterprise remain
broad but still involve considerable work as they all
demand the application of agile thinking to all aspects
of your business: from innovation, to operations, to
back-office functions, to corporate headquarters,
senior management, and even the agile
transformation process itself. However, it is perfectly
possible that a large company can do all this in an
orderly manner if it prepares its way towards an agile
organization with the support or coaching of expert
companies in the field.
Business leaders realize that the pace of competition
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has increased and the scale and cost advantages are
outweighed by a market where startups are already
with speed and agility management since their
founding.
To keep up with this changing environment and
accelerate Digital Transformation, company
leadership should aspire to transform their companies
to become more agile and flexible. However, many
recognize that their daily or processes are siloed,
resulting the stagnation of innovation efforts
 Adapt Corporate Strategies – Balancing
Efficiency and Innovation with Agility

Agile management has the power to change this
dynamic, but it needs to go beyond a variety of
agile teams. To become a truly agile company, the
C-suite must become agile and the company's
executive team must embrace agile principles.
According to Darrell Rigby innovation practice
expert, author of ' Winning in Turbulence ' and
co-author of ' Doing Agile Right : Transformation '
Without Chaos ' it is possible for truly agile leaders
to strike the right balance between standardizing
operations and pursuing innovation if they
successfully address the following three axes of their
agile management:

How agile management actually works across the organization.

How agile practices are enabling vigorous innovation without sacrificing the efficiency and reliability essential
to traditional operations.

How to implement and scale agile management to reap its full benefits, and what to
avoid doing in the process.

Your organization needs to be more agile to thrive in this

rapidly changing Digital Transformation landscape. If
you’re not sure how to start, Stefanini Group can help
you. Our Agile Mentoring service enables the
implementation of improvement initiatives in development
teams and the promotion of strong agility practices to
enhance the performance of the strategic profiles of its
digital tribe.

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 13 Reasons to Adopt Agile
Practices

“Accelerating software delivery” and “improving reducing their project risk (37% compared to 28%
the ability to manage changing priorities” continue last year).
to be the top reasons cited for adopting Agile
Management. The business group surveyed in the The result for the adoption of agile practices in the
'14th Annual State of Agile Report 2020' indicated aforementioned analysis was as follows:
that the reasons for adopting agile practices have
less to do with reducing project cost (26%
compared to 41% last year) and more to do with

1 Accelerate software delivery. 71% of companies. 7 Reduce project risk. 37% of companies.

Improve the ability to manage changing priorities. Improve project visibility. 36% of companies.
2 63% of companies. 8

3 Increase productivity. 51% of companies. 9 Improve team motivation. 31% of companies.

Improve alignment between business and IT.

4 10 Reduce the cost of the project. 26% of companies.
47% of companies.

5 Improve software quality. 42% of companies. 11 Improve the engineering discipline. 23% of companies.

Improve delivery predictability. 39% of Better manage distributed teams. 21% of

6 12
companies. companies.

Note: Respondents were able to make multiple selections in the Increase software maintenance. 18% of
13 companies.
aforementioned report.

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 Greater Benefits of Business
Agility

According to 'The business agility report 2020'
issued by the Business Agility Institute, in the
analysis of the greatest benefits that business
agility brings to organizations, highlighted 10 main
themes.
COVID-19 as a key benefit. This aligns with the
quantitative findings noted earlier in this report.
The most significant organizational benefits of
business agility are:

Notably, many respondents to the aforementioned

analysis identified the ability to respond to

Collaboration and communication Agile practices and growth mindset

Better ways to work

Adaptive leadership
Speed to market
Motivation
Customer satisfaction
Employee satisfaction
Appropriation of responsibility
Response to Covid-19

Other Benefits of Adopting

Agile Management

We continue to see many benefits realized by This corresponds with the main reasons reported
Alcance

companies that adopt Agile Management. The top for adopting agile practices.
5 reported benefits are speed and adaptability.

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 Ability to manage changing priorities 70%
Project visibility 65%
Business / IT alignment 65%
Speed of delivery/time to market 60%
Motivation 59%
Increased team productivity 58%
Risk reduction project 51%
Project predictability 50%
Software quality 46%
Engineering discipline 44%
Management of distributed teams 41%
Software maintenance 35%
Project cost reduction 26%

Success and Metrics of Agile

Management

How do you measure success with agile those reported in recent years. Customer
transformations? According to the ' Annual report satisfaction results and business value rank above
State of Agile Report 2020', when respondents results like on-time delivery or productivity.
were also asked about how their organizations
measure the success of agile transformations, the
top measures of success were consistent with

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54%
48%
45%
44%
40%
37% 35%
33% 29%
15%

Business
Customer/user Business Give on Quality goals Productivity Organizational
Process Project Project Product
satisfaction value time achieved
culture /
improvement predictability visibility scope
motivation

The Agile Support service is customized progressive development as a complete

according to the needs of your organization, and framework. Scrum, the Kanban methodology or
will allow you to identify if you currently have the the Xtreme Programming.
ability to adapt to changes in business needs with
the best agile methodologies in iterative and

Co-create with our global ecosystem in a flexible and

agile way to face the challenges of the companies of
the future.
Ready to start?
Consult an expert today!
Fuentes:
Rigby, Darrell K., ‘The Agile Organization: Balancing Efficiency and Innovation (Even in Tough Times)’ Harvard Business Review, 2020.
08 14th Annual State of Agile Report. Digital.ai, 2020.
The business agility report. Responding to disruption’. 3rd edition, Business Agility Institute, 2020.
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