Rewired

Section ThreeAdopting a New Operating Model

Rearchitecting your organization and governance to be fast and flexible

The concept of agility has become so overused as to almost be cliché, but it remains at the heart of what it takes for companies to operate at the drumbeat of digital.¹ Building and scaling digital and AI solutions requires companies to be much faster and more flexible in the way they develop technology, and having an agile operating model is the way to get there. Developing that operating model, however, is perhaps the most complex aspect of a digital and AI transformation because it touches the core of the organization and how people work together.

Agile teams – or pods, the term we favor – are the most effective way to develop software-based solutions – that's no longer up for debate. But, while any company can get a handful of pods to work well, standing up and scaling hundreds, if not thousands, of them is another story.

This section covers the most critical working practices of well-functioning pods and, more importantly, what it takes to organize and manage a large number of them.

• Chapter 13: From doing agile to being agile. Understanding what it takes beyond basic process changes to make agile pods work for peak effectiveness and impact.
• Chapter 14: Operating models that support hundreds of agile pods. The three leading operating model options that have emerged to go from a handful of agile teams to supporting hundreds of them across all levels of the ...