Chapter 13
Ten Tips for Overcoming Common Obstacles
IN THIS CHAPTER
Starting with a plan and realistic expectations
Rallying leadership to support your enterprise agile transformation
Using consultants wisely
Overcoming pockets of resistance
Transforming an organization with well-established functional areas into a collection of small, closely aligned teams requires a major overhaul. In this chapter, I provide ten tips to smooth your path to enterprise agility.
When organizations fail in their efforts to become agile enterprises, they often conclude that enterprise agility isn’t the right fit for them. However, the reason an enterprise agile transformation fails can usually be traced back to the organization’s approach to change management or its resistance to change, not to enterprise agility.
Develop a Clear Roadmap
Prior to embarking on an enterprise agile transformation, develop a roadmap — a path that leads from point A (where your organization is today) to point B (your vision of ...
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