Scaled Agile Transition

The ZXM team worked collaboratively with Executive and Directors to develop and implement the agile transition strategy. Rather than spend months scoping a whole program, we started with a few initial agile teams. Once learnings have been gathered from these initial teams and their initial agile practices, we worked with leadership to scale to the program to roll out agile across 12 agile teams within 3 months.
We started small with the basic Scrum framework and then added scaling patterns as the teams matured. We were able to fast track agile teams set up by deploying proven support material, including ZXM’s agile checklists, role definitions, and team blueprints to kick-start the program and its teams. Combined with our Agile Essentials training course, we can help new agile teams get started in 48 hours. Our agile transition for the program approach involved:

• Program-wide prioritisation for work across the 23 delivery areas by their Program Management Group and set up pipeline team to develop features.
• Strategies for Executives to promote consistency of alignment to portfolio outcomes across diverse teams employing different agile frameworks.
• Directors’ planning to identify key benefits and outcomes that can be delivered through an Agile transition and rollout across the Branch.
• Business stakeholder workshops to improve alignment between team, program and portfolio requirements for Release Candidates .
• Agile planning approaches to deliver the program, including resources and team configurations, legislative imperatives and milestones, capabilities and value stream identification.
• Agile coaching and training for Executives, Directors and teams, including Lean Leadership, Scrum, Kanban and SAFe®.
• Working with the program layers to structure work to enable reporting requirements to provide metrics to executives to support decision making including a product view as well as a release candidate view of delivery.