Since Forrester began tracking Agile development more than four years ago, they’ve reported consistent growth in the use of Agile practices. However, once organizations get started, they often encounter challenges that prevent them from scaling Agile as quickly or as widely as they’d like.
These challenges include things like behavioral change, which is the biggest roadblock for most organizations; a lack of skills in upstream or Agile project management frameworks; and running separate Agile and DevOps transformation programs, which leads to poorer overall agility.
In their recent State of Agile 2017: Agile at Scale report, Forrester outlines these and other common challenges and the current state of Agile development in 2017. They then provide a number of best practices for organizations that are looking to overcome these challenges to achieve agility at scale.
After reading the report and examining the activities that have been most successful for our customers, Blueprint has pulled together our top 6 must-dos for scaling Agile development to the enterprise level:
Software is conquering the world — and Agile is making it possible.
Organizations need to fully embrace Agile principles at the enterprise level if they hope to remain competitive and build innovative solutions their customers want and need.
From getting your organization on board through cultural changes, to applying Agile techniques both upstream and downstream, to implementing the right technologies to support your Agile expansion – if your organization embraces the best practices outlined in this video, you’ll be well on your way to achieving agility at scale and transforming the way your organization delivers value through technology.
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