Cultural Agility

Bart has been in ecommerce for over 20 years, and can't imagine a better job to have. He is interested in all things agile, or anything new to learn.

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Organizations don’t become Agile without meaningful change in how teams operate, from a commitment to collaboration, learning, autonomy and trust to an unwavering focus on constant improvement. Here are three principles to guide your Agile culture transformation.

This series launched in May with an introduction to the concept of “Organizational Agility” and the driving forces behind it, followed by a look at “Opportunity Agility,” which showed how customers and products can serve as guides to new ideas, and “Action Agility,” which outlined the fundamentals of getting started on an Agile journey. All of these efforts will struggle to succeed, however, without a meaningful change in the culture of an organization’s teams.    

Agile adoption involves much more than nominating a product owner and ScrumMaster and hoping for the best. It’s much more than organizing in teams and counting story points. It’s a fundamental change in how people work.

Without creating an Agile culture, the chances of success is low, no matter how skilled the team. The more a team can collaborate, learn and trust each other, the more likely the team is to produce something wonderful. This culture change must be nurtured and, if necessary, insisted upon, in order to gain the full benefits. Here are three key principles to guide this …

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