Enabling Agile Mindset across Enterprise

Abstract
In this session Rayan will be sharing his experience on several enterprise wide Agile Transformation projects that he has led. Scaling Agile in a product development from a team level to program, portfolio and enterprise level. The needs a change of mindset of all the stakeholders involved . It is not only IT delivery which changes as a result but also from the other different parts of the organisation.Right from defining requirements keeping user at the center using Design Thinking, to provisioning of resources, contracting, creating a product vision and an architectural runway, to how we create and manage the entire product development pipeline. Releasing a minimum viable product iteratively and incorporating user feedback at each and every step. Bringing in LEAN ways of thinking across all the different business processes , bringing in transparency in order to generate trust , emphasising on quality of the delivery and fostering a collaborative cross functional culture within the enterprise. He would like to bring out the challenges that he have faced in these efforts and the way to take such transformation forward.

Key Takeaways

  1. Understanding that Agile is a mindset and not simply a process, method or tool.
  2. Transformations need to be driven across the various stakeholders in order to scale to an enterprise wide agile way.
  3. Challenges in creating the transparency, collaboration, quality focus across multiple business units
  4. The steps in taking a team level agile implementation to scale it to a program, portfolio and enterprise level.