From the course: Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team

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Identify success areas for agile implementation

Identify success areas for agile implementation

From the course: Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team

Identify success areas for agile implementation

- You are the CEO of a mid-size company, and your board of directors tells you, "Our competitors are putting products to market way faster than you do. We're losing market share. Our independent research agency reported that our peers use what they call the agile approach, and their agile teams perform faster and more efficiently. We want you to put together an agile team and report your first results by the end of next quarter. You have three months." Here's what you need to do. Start by assessing the organizational readiness for agile and task your team to gather answers to the assessment questions. Start small. Agile transformations and building agile teams take time and can be expensive, and you're not 100% sure of the result. The time is also limited, so a pilot will be perfect. You will need to select a department and project that can be fully completed using the agile approach within three months. Your board specifically said that they wanted to shorten time to market. It is…

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