Taking Agile Transformations Beyond the Tipping Point
The secrets to scaling up this fast and effective new way of working.
The secrets to scaling up this fast and effective new way of working.
As companies shift to agile ways of working, the right workspace design becomes more important than ever.
An agile transformation requires teams to fundamentally change their ways of working. Here’s how to persuade everyone to pull together.
It might seem counterintuitive. But the most successful leaders don’t tightly control agile efforts, BCG's Benjamin Rehberg explains. They create alignment around purpose, strategy, and priorities—and then they let teams go.
If you’ve implemented agile, but only lightly adjusted your business’s standard work methods, you need to dig deeper.
Traditional companies in nearly all sectors are deploying agile principles in core business areas—and outperforming their peers in the marketplace.
For Risk Management Solutions, the move to a cloud-based platform involved big challenges. Company leaders reveal how a hybrid development approach contributed to their success.
Agile is powerful, but it isn’t suitable for every digital project. If the company’s technology architecture isn’t decoupled, or if project dependencies are high, a hybrid approach makes sense.
Is your IT team struggling to implement large, enterprise-wide projects on time and under budget? By changing tactics, companies can save millions each year.
Cloud developers are both revising the rules for writing software and breaking speed records in the release and updating of code. Traditional software teams can learn a lot from cloud development teams about unleashing creativity and satisfying customers.
The product strategist and author of Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love has designed products for some of the world’s most successful companies. In this interview, Marty Cagan shares his secrets of success.
Ditching the waterfall method can hone a focus on customers and empower employees, boosting the quality of data and improving project outcomes.
Agile software development takes you only so far. To keep pace in the digital age, you also need DevOps.
HSBC’s David Knott looks for ways to streamline the bank’s digital infrastructure, adopting new technology and new ways of thinking in the digital world.
Leaders who observe five lessons keep transformations on track.
First, HR carried out an agile makeover of the bank’s Dutch unit—then, it transformed itself. HR and functional-area leaders everywhere, take note.
Marketers that successfully implement agile do so as a form of transformation—cultural as well as organizational.
Agile is hard—really hard. But when companies don’t commit to planning and execution, they risk falling into one of several known traps.
Too often, agile remains confined to software development. But companies that successfully implement the approach across the enterprise can create an exceptional customer experience and gain a competitive edge.
Companies that adopt agile ways of working are five times more likely to experience faster growth and higher profits than those that don’t. Several other elements of good organization design can also help.
The test-and-learn practices of software development, which help reduce complexity and bureaucracy, travel well across industries.
Retailers seeking growth have run up against a brick wall. They can scale it with new ways of working.
Agile may seem risky and impractical for regulatory projects, but it offers extraordinary benefits and can give banks an edge over competitors.
Agile enables ING to react swiftly in a rapidly changing world.
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