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Treating Agile as a Transformation Project

If you do not manage culture, it manages you, and you may not even be aware of the extent to which this is happening.

—Edgar Schein

Moving to Agile is a move to a new culture, and cultural changes are difficult for a team or organization. To transform your organization to Agile, organizational values and individual behaviors need to change. Because of this I strongly recommend that a change toward Agile must be thought of as a transformation or change initiative, treated as a project, and actively managed. True to the spirit of Agile, using an inspect-and-adapt model can help you manage the change ...

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