Creating Agile Organizations: A Systemic Approach

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Optimize for Adaptiveness

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

—Stephen Covey

According to Craig Larman, co-creator of the LeSS framework and renowned consultant, reducing switching costs by learning is resisted most by any organization.

We can hardly disagree with that. Indeed, this is something that we observe during our own work quite often. Speed of delivery can be easily “sold” to management. But speed is not enough to be Agile at the organizational level.

Once, we consulted for a product company in eastern Europe. It was building a portal with an innovative fintech system that processed payments among tens of countries. The organizational ...