Your overall Agile IQ® score puts you in Stage Four. Stage Four suggests that most of the company is taking part in agile teams. Relative to other organisations, your overall agile capability maturity is likely very high.
Forecast cost savings
$20M+
Average time to release value
Up to 5 days
Average time to pivot to change
Up to 7 days
Forecast psychological safety
High
It typically takes a company 3-5 years to reach Stage Four. Only 10% of digital transformations reach Stage Four.Â
What is Stage Four?
Stage Four organisations are high performers. Their teams regularly show consistent high throughput at a high level of quality and sustainable pace. It shouldn’t be unusual for their teams to double their throughput when the type of work is consistent over a few months.
Archetypal behaviours
Your Agile IQ® score shows that many of the teams in the company have strong agile behaviours. The ones that start to focus on optimising flow will help decrease the company's ability to pivot to disruptive change. Cost savings in Stage Four companies for agile adoption can reach $20M+ per year.
Management by objectives
move to
Lean practices and measuring value
Reporting on objectives and tasks
move to
Reporting on value-based metrics based on the impact and outcome investments have to customers and the conmpany
Key to growth
Your Agile IQ® score suggests that while there is some agile growth across your company, there may still be some competing priorities holding you back.
Flow
actions for growth
Use value stream maps to understand bottlenecks in the flow of value to customers and take actions to remove them.
Waste
actions for growth
Aggressively assess whether processes and practices add value to customers and, if not, how they can be removed.
Metrics
actions for growth
Heavy use of value metrics will see a focus on why investment is being made and a focus on its impact over a "tick and flick" approach to delivery of features.
What to avoid
Data on the fastest path to growth, based on other companies' successes and lessons learned, is key to avoid the traps of transformation
Groupthink
avoid
Groupthink is a real danger for teams that rapidly reach this stage. They internalise their sense of superiority and end up slipping back to Stage Two if they aren't kept an eye on.
"But we deliver!"
avoid
"But we deliver, leave us alone" is a common sign that teams have only implemented agile as a fixed process over a way to continously improve. They might 'appear' to be a Stage Four team, but they're likely to be hiding deeper behavioural problems.
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