How Agile Transformation Empowers You to Thrive in a Crisis

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How Agile transformation empowers you to thrive
in a crisis
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Introduction Agile transformation of an
organization is an act of progressively
transforming its form and structure to be able to
thrive in a flexible and fast-changing
environment. It goes beyond the typical adoption
of Agile principles within the IT teams and
extends throughout the length and breadth of a
business enterprise. Enterprise agility enables
an organization to move quickly even under
unprecedented circumstances, empower its people
to take accountability and ownership of
performance, embed customer-centricity in its
core practices, and facilitate a cost and
innovation-driven growth. Designed to be fast,
resilient, and adaptable, Agile organizations
have the ability to shift their priorities and
reorganize their resources when the crisis hits
to contain the damages as much as possible while
creating new opportunities.
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What is enterprise agility or agile
transformation Agile transformation refers to
the implementation or application of the Agile
principles throughout an organization, across the
functions beyond the IT department. An agile
enterprise encompasses stable as well as dynamic
elements that together form a stable and
efficient backbone of the organization. When the
COVID-19 pandemic hit the world and disrupted
businesses, resilience became the key term for
the organizations to survive. And Agile is the
pathway to developing that resilience. A BCG
article states that Resilience will determine
how many of todays Fortune 100 companies are
still in the ranking in 2022. The latest State
of Agile report identified different areas within
an organization that have adopted agile
principles and practices with 37 adoption in
Software development, 26 in IT, 12 in
operations, 7 in marketing, 6 in HR, and 5 in
Sales/Sales op.
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• Benefits of Agile transformation
• As per the State of Agile report, the top
  benefits realized by enterprises embracing agile
  transformation are
• Ability to manage changing priorities
• End-to-end visibility
• Alignment of business goals and IT
• Faster time-to-market
• Higher team productivity and morale
• Lower risk with higher predictability
• Higher quality of services and discipline
• Better management of distributed teams
• Reduction in the overall costs
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