Continuous Improvement

Create a learning environment focused on continual improvement through all parts of the agility life-cycle and with all your people. 

Let's continuously improve through:

• Leadership and management coaching
• Customized learning designed specifically for, and owned by, you (i.e. Online learning for contractors, in-person training, etc.)
• Reoccurring talks, lunch-and-learns, workshops, etc.
• Experimentation mindset
• Feedback loops and continual opportunities
• Communities of Practice for various roles for sharing knowledge and skills

Transparency

Gain better predictability, have a baseline for improvements, and be able to react in a timely manner to what is disruptive.

Let's improve transparency through:

• Operational workflow and walkthrough
• Shared vision and goals
• Value Stream mapping
• Creation of Product Roadmaps
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Valuable reporting
• Open spaces for Agility questions
• Team visibility

Collaboration

​Provide the necessary structure and culture for everyone to work together, achieving faster results toward common outcomes. 
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Example services include establishing:

• Community of Excellence
• Clear roles and expectations
• Standardized tool sets that aid collaboration
• Scaling principles
• Cross-functional teams
• Dependency management
• Team ownership and accountability

​Communication

Keep everyone in the loop to minimize risks, maximize productivity, and ensure alignment on expectations and standards. 

Let's improve communication through driving:

• Team development building
• Decentralized communication channels
• Clear ownership of various communications
• Clear user and technical requirements
• Facilitating and holding only valuable meetings
• Specific and clear objectives
• Shared online push and pull communications
• Increased and autonomous communication with offshore distributed teams

Successful agility is about grasping agile behaviors.

Agility at an enterprise level only works

• when leaders know how to interact with agile teams and shows the agile mindset through actions
• when stakeholders know how to provide expectations and speak clearly for the customer
• when business people understand the need to have availability to prioritize and provide direction
• when existing PMOs understand a new way of reporting, feedback loops and alignment
• when delivery teams know what is expected of them

​Throughout, standing up internal agility leaders and teams is key to making sure changes and effectiveness stick long after any consultant is gone.