March Edition: Recession-Proof Your Teams

Hello everyone!

Recession-Proof Your Team

It’s hard to turn on the news without hearing about a large company cutting jobs or having financial issues. As leaders, one of the most important things we can do is look within our teams to help guard them against the pending recession. There are four risks that can impact teams:

• Performance - Team performance and productivity can go down
• Outputs over Outcomes - Leaders could focus on getting work done not delivering outcomes
• Morale - Disengagement, low morale, silent quitting or actual leaving
• Failure - important initiatives could actually fail to deliver results?

There are three strategies you can use to mitigate these risks as we talked about in a recent webinar:

Click here?to watch the full Recession-Proof Your Teams Webinar.

When we look at leveraging data to identify and remove obstacles for teams, there are so many ways we can do this, but we really should hone in on the five target performance metrics of Predictability, Value Delivered, Time to Market, Quality, and Response to Change.

This is a great time to download our?Top Predictors of Team Health report?where we analyzed 4,600 teams to learn what drives performance. Feel free to share it with your teams and leaders.?

Looking to drive more?data driven transformations and mitigate the risk of the recession? Hit reply and we'll schedule a call to see where we can support you.?

???Sally Elatta and the AgilityHealth? team

Accelerating Your Enterprise Business Agility Journey

Recently I had the honor of speaking at the Agile International Conference in Miami. During that keynote, I discussed the journey of how businesses can move towards achieving enterprise agility at each level of their organization.

At the first level, businesses typically begin with team agility. This involves creating agile teams, and transforming them into cross-functional teams. Providing training and coaching, and equipping them with the right agile tools like Scrum and Kanban, can help the teams deliver and plan better. However, to take team agility to the next level, it is important to measure the health of those teams, help them understand where they are today, and enable them to help themselves grow. An enablement model that focuses on teaching teams how to fish can help organizations move away from the old model of having an agile coach for every single team, which is no longer feasible.

The next level is team-of-team agility, where organizations try to figure out how to get multiple teams to plan and deliver together, using their preferred scaling method, on a cadence. For technology organizations, this is also the time to consider DevOps maturity, while other organizations should focus on technical excellence for their domain. At this point, leadership agility becomes crucial for organizations to invest in. While most organizations tend to focus on getting the teams to do agile, it is important to invest in leadership agility at this stage, especially for managers and leaders above the management layer. Otherwise, they will continue to do what they were doing before, resulting in command and control leadership that does not allow for product owners to prioritize, and influences teams directly to tell them what to work on.

Moving to the third level of organizational agility, businesses focus on product management maturity, shifting from projects to product, building stable teams, and maturing product owners and managers. It is crucial to separate strategy from execution at this stage, to align teams with outcomes, and address shared service problems that often result in bottleneck patterns.

The fourth level of agility is operational agility, where businesses focus on product maturity, lean portfolio management, digital transformation, and changing their organizational design and structure. All aspects of the organization, including HR, finance, procurement, legal, sales, and marketing, come to the table to create a culture of agility.?

Finally, at the enterprise business agility level, businesses can anticipate customer needs, become strategic partners, and stay ahead of the market. This requires IT and technology to shift from being a mere supplier or vendor to being an innovative and trusted partner.

Achieving enterprise business agility requires a journey that involves different levels of transformation. At each stage, it is essential to invest in leadership agility, enable teams to help themselves grow, align teams with outcomes, and stay ahead of the market. Are you ready to take your organization to the next level? Book a demo today to get your journey started.?

UPCOMING EVENTS

TriAgile - March 28 in Raleigh, NC

SAFe for Government - April 11 in Washington DC

Atlassian Team '23 - April 18-20 in Las Vegas, NV

Business Agility Conference - April 26-27 in New York, NY

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