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The main problem of business agility

AN IDENTIFIED PROBLEM

The business and IT are not quite synced, a certain gap or dysfunction between them: one does not like change the other thrives in uncertainty. They do not speak the same lingo nor they try to understand each other.

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Mario AielloPosted on July 22, 2021May 16, 2022Categories Business Agility

A thought on agility implementation

At the organisation level, an agile transformation usualy consists in two interlaping phases: a transition to new ways of working and an evolution of the new ways onto business agility.

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Mario AielloPosted on April 19, 2021January 13, 2025Categories Business Agility

Simplifying the transition to business agility

When the organisation thinks about “moving to agile” or “adopting agile” commonly they think Scrum to form agile teams, then start the debate about how best to scale agile, SAFe, Scrum@Scale, Less, etc.

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Mario AielloPosted on January 26, 2021May 16, 2022Categories Business Agility

Break silos for business agility

Business agility is hindered by operational silos, breaking these optimizes the flow of value.

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Mario AielloPosted on January 23, 2021June 3, 2025Categories Business Agility

What agility for an organization?

This question is quite relevant and should be: does the organization need and want agility? How can we then implement it and express it?

Three phases to start an agile transition: the purpose (why), the context (because), the practice (how).

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Mario AielloPosted on December 31, 2020May 16, 2022Categories Business Agility

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BOOKLETS

  • The Agile Operating System Booklet
  • Beyond Agile Booklet
  • Business Agility

Beyond Agile

  • The Last Agile Ways Post (And the First of Something New)
  • Push, pull, or flow
  • The Agile Orthodoxy Trap
  • Leading with Clarity: Beyond Agile’s Process Obsession
  • The Far Side of Agile
  • Fragmentation kills flow
  • Agility is All About Keeping Your Options Open
  • How Encapsulation and Orchestration Conquer Dependencies in Agile Development
  • Governance Principles
  • A Simple Framework for Getting More Done
  • Forces affecting value delivery
  • Constraints, dependencies, and impediments
  • Expanding the horizon of “beyond agile” practices
  • Team Capacity and Focus
  • Maximizing Team Efficiency through Lean, Flow, and Theory of Constraints Metrics
  • It’s Not About Being Agile, It’s About Being Effective
  • Team encapsulation and orchestration
  • Solving the Efficiency Equation
  • The Efficiency Equation
  • Dependencies and delays 
  • The Path of Continuous Improvement: Lean, Flow, and Theory of Constraints
  • Beyond agile
  • Agile is an empty box

Simple Agility

  • AI Boosts Simple Agility
  • Implementing simple agility
  • Minimum suitable ecosystem for agility
  • Explaining simple agility
  • Simple agility
  • Popularizing agility
  • Team agility litmus test

Business Agility

  • Coaching the System
  • How Aligned OKRs Create Two-Way Strategy
  • The value stream within a value system
  • How Technical, Product, and Organizational Debt Interconnect
  • Guesses, Dreams, and the Hard Truth in Software Development
  • Building Solutions Through Trust and Empowerment
  • A Guide to Velocity, Predictability, and Innovation
  • How to Structure Teams and Products for Speed
  • Building Effective Value Streams
  • Agile Delivery Through Value Streams and Lean Flow
  • Bridging Team, Organizational, and Business Agility Dimensions
  • The Key to Modern Business Success
  • What limits Business agility
  • Building business increments
  • Leadership challenges in achieving agility
  • Pursuing objectives
  • Bringing agile to the organization
  • Having a work acceptance system is important for business agility.
  • How about business agility?
  • It’s not about doing agile but about achieving business agility
  • Drivers of business agility
  • The main problem of business agility
  • The dynamics of value generation through needs
  • Simplifying the transition to business agility
  • Break silos for business agility
  • What agility for an organization?

The Agile Operating System

  • The AOS
  • Description
  • Analysis
  • Adoption
  • Organization and workflow
  • Agile transformation
  • Completeness guide
  • Right to left
  • Handoffs
  • A loop chain of services
  • The AOS through the Kanban lens
  • The AOS revisited
  • The AOS supports business agility
  • The AOS seen as a generative agility model

Agile stuff

  • The wheel of agility
  • Sense-making agile
  • Agile approach for release constrained teams
  • The good, the bad, the ugly – Part 2
  • Wishful lies
  • A thought on agility implementation
  • Agile transformation in an hour
  • Initiative to value delivery flow
  • Value stream, workflow, teams, and feedback loops
  • The dual loop feedback
  • The lean/agile fabric
  • The good, the bad, and the ugly
  • Outcome of an agile transformation
  • Agile on a Page
  • Agile 101
  • Ownership and roles
  • Agile setup
  • Bad agile
  • Enterprise agility transformation
  • Product Backlog Evolution
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