Which Areas or Functions Transform?

During an Agile transformation, organisations undergo significant changes across multiple areas, each contributing to a more adaptive, efficient, and customer-centric approach. Key elements that transform include workflow management, where traditional linear processes give way to iterative and flexible systems, and portfolio management, which becomes more aligned with Agile principles by emphasising value delivery and responsiveness. Leadership also shifts towards a servant leadership model that fosters collaboration and empowerment.

Furthermore, technological transformations encompass the build pipeline, automation, and infrastructure as code, ensuring that delivery and deployment processes are streamlined. Agile teams adopt new communication methods, facilitation techniques, and enhanced feedback loops to improve collaboration and learning. In addition, tools and techniques, such as Kanban, wallware, and various metrics systems, are employed to visualise progress and track performance. Changes extend to governance structures, which become more adaptive, and maturity assessments, which help gauge and guide the organisation's Agile progress.

These changes lead to improved process improvement approaches, aligning the entire organisation around continuous learning and alignment across portfolios.

Some of the areas and functions that transform are:

• Workflow

• Portfolio Management

• Leadership

• Build Pipeline

• Automation

• Infrastructure as Code

• Delivery Principles

• Deployment approaches

• Change Management

• Team Structures

• Communication methods

• Facilitation approaches

• Tools and techniques

• Templates

• Knowledge repositories

• Metrics

• Wallware

• Feedback loops

• Process improvement approaches (Lean/Kaizen)

• Kanban

• Governance Structures

• Leadership

• Maturity Assessments

• Standard Alignment

• Cross Portfolio Alignments