Seven Secrets of Scaling Agile

In the current industrial revolution, tables are turning again and we are reviving the belief that each and every human being has the right to live his/her full potential in an autonomous, nurturing, safe and flexible environment for a greater purpose that benefits humanity.

Existing enterprise work ethic has lost its strength in cultural and hierarchical status quo. The ‘Lean and Agile Enterprise’ culture, makes the initiatives relevant to the context, thus reducing the traditional worship of consistency.

In our particular situation, what made us more productive in two pizza rule teams was not designed to work at enterprise scale. Cultural change in the humungous global organization required a carefully crafted flexible and scalable approach.

What are the key challenges of your enterprise in pursuit of scaled agility and leanness?

• What must you do in a $200M transformation programme to transform 65 thousand plus global employees, nurtured in varying cultures of 65 plus countries towards higher motivation, productivity, and innovation?
• How should you envisage and derive collaborative transparency and continuous improvement?
• How could you evolve effective teams with a shared vision that stays alive throughout the enterprise DNA?
• What won’t you fix now, even though it looks urgent?

For us, utilizing the conventional wisdom, established frameworks and standard home-grown principles of scaled autonomy, continuous learning is driven mastery and an overall shared purpose driven vision contributed to the gradual solution for this ‘wicked problem’, in pursuit of excellence.

Our roller coaster transformative journey has helped us unleash the:

'Seven Secrets of Scaling'

Stay tuned and I will be sharing one secret every week for the next seven weeks (from Jan 2018) and provide practical tips on how to implement each secret.