This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Summary
Working with people who understand the why behind the new way of working is a crucial ingredient and lays the foundations for success. Management alignment on the optimization goals as well as co-creating an understanding of Agile principles and practices is an excellent first step to take.
The organizational design used severely impacts the organization’s agility at the overall product level. The espoused optimizing goals must be supported by the organizational design to scale agility successfully. Unfortunately, when your current organizational design is based on a functional hierarchy, then you are likely optimizing for predictability, control, and resource utilization, and maintaining the status quo.
In contrast, agility at scale requires an organizational redesign so that you optimize for the right optimization goals. A senior manager who fills the role of organizational designer is needed.