The Professional Agile Leader: The Leader's Journey Toward Growing Mature Agile Teams and Organizations
by Ron Eringa, Kurt Bittner, Laurens Bonnema
7. Aligning the Organization
As organizations grow their agility, team by team, product by product, they come to a point where they must either fully commit to continuing their agile journey or they will fall back to the old ways of working. Organizations can continue for a long time with two different operating models, one agile and one traditional, coexisting side-by-side. But they cannot maintain these two models forever; they are incompatible and diametrically opposed. They create and demand opposing cultures. Eventually, one culture or the other will win out.
The “dual operating system” approach1 is a false dichotomy; there is no part of the organization that will not benefit from self-managing teams. The challenge is in helping teams that ...
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