program selection system

Adopting agile in a large organization is qualitatively different than it is for small organizations. It is not just a ‘scalability’ issue. In larger organizations, the adoption of Agile—even if it is ‘simply’ an isolated project here or there—will generate ripples of change that reverberate much further into the organization than we expect.

In this session we will investigate several ideas and concepts related to organizational change in order to equip managers and coaches with a means for approaching the transition to agile in their organization. We offer no particular ‘solutions’ here. Rather, I want to present some perspectives that I have come to think of as essential for large organizational change. Among the ideas we’ll be investigating are:

• Top-down vs. bottom-up change
• Planned, episodic change vs. Emergent, continuous change
• Change that is ‘Native’ and ‘Organic’ vs. change that is imported and based on ‘best practices’