Agile IQ results - Zen Ex Machina

Assessing your pattern of responses

Comparing responses to key agile behaviours

Extracting behavioural factors

Your Agile IQ® results

These results are a high level view of your Agile IQ® only.

Stage :

Self Organisation
Agile Values
Sprinting
Continuous Learning Culture

What is Stage ?

Stage One suggests that you have a number of people focussed on transforming your , but relative to others, your overall agile capability maturity is likely still fairly low. Skills and expertise is typically in the hands of individuals, so delivery is typically not scalable or repeatable.

AI's benchmarks for Stage One

Flow metrics: Time to pivot: up to 6+ months. Time to release value: up to 1 yr.
Cost savings impact: None
Forecast psychological safety: Very low
Forecast NPS: < 0

How to get to Stage 2: Guardrails for self-organisation, and essential agile roles and responsibilities. Stick with industry standards for product management rather than customising frameworks your don't yet have experience with.

What to expect at Stage 2?

Flow metrics: Time to pivot up to 30 days. Time to release value 1+ months.
Cost savings impact: Low
Forecast psychological safety: Low
Forecast NPS: < 30

Stage Two s are typically learning how to support self-management and be cross-functional. This typically involves many people focussed on making the shift from linear, predictive, waterfall-style planning to adaptive planning in Sprints.

The will get benefits from "agile" once the basics are truly mastered: agile roles, events, artefacts and values.

AI's benchmarks for Stage Two

Flow metrics: Time to pivot up to 30 days. Time to release value 1+ months.
Cost savings impact: Low
Forecast psychological safety: Low
Forecast NPS: < 30

If you're in a hybrid waterfall/agile model, it's important to recognise that this just is one step toward becoming agile. Make plans to slowly take more steps to move away from waterfall if you want agile's benefits: higher productivity, higher quality, lower costs and faster lead time.

How to get to Stage 3:: Use Scrum's empiricism or Deming Cycle P-D-C-A for inspecting and adapting improvement actions. Ensure that concrete actions for improvement are put into the Sprint Backlog should result in improvements being planned not just talked about.

What to expect at Stage 3?

Flow metrics: Time to pivot up to 30 days. Time to release value 2+ weeks.
Cost savings impact: $10M+
Forecast psychological safety: Medium
Forecast NPS: < 40

Stage Three s start to see significant and tangible results from their investment in their agile transformation. Transparency of the health of your products and services is higher, enabling leaders to make informed decisions on where to invest.

AI's benchmarks for Stage Three

Flow metrics: Time to pivot up to 30 days. Time to release value 2+ weeks.
Cost savings impact: $10M+
Forecast psychological safety: Medium
Forecast NPS: < 40

How to get to Stage 4:: Strengthen stakeholder and customer feedback loops underpinned by value-based, product management metrics. Don't just do a 'demo' or 'showcase' at Sprint Review, but ensure you inspect the business environment, talk about changes to need, and workshop what you'll all need to do as a result next Sprint.

What to expect at Stage 4?

Flow metrics: Time to pivot up to 7 days. Time to release value 5+ days.
Cost savings impact: $20M+
Forecast psychological safety: High
Forecast NPS: < 70

Stage Four typically reflects that most people are taking part in agile s. Most Stage Four have shifted from "ways of working" to agile product management operating models. Relative to other , Stage Four indicates your overall agile capability maturity is likely very high. It can take a 3-5 years to reach Stage Four.

Only 10% of digital transformations reach Stage Four.

AI's benchmarks for Stage Four

Flow metrics: Time to pivot up to 7 days. Time to release value 5+ days.
Cost savings impact: $20M+
Forecast psychological safety: High
Forecast NPS: < 70

How to get to Stage 5:: Implement flow metrics and Lean thinking: optimising flow, minimising waste, and improving throughput.

What to expect at Stage 5?

Flow metrics: Time to pivot < 1 week. Time to release value every day.
Cost savings impact: $30M+
Forecast psychological safety: Very high
Forecast NPS: 80+

Stage Five suggests that your is engaged in continuous and relentless improvement at a whole 'systems' perspective over just teams. Stage Five are optimised for adaptation with interchangeable building blocks that allow it to rearrange and reorient as needed in response to internal or external factors, such as a shift in customer needs, stakeholder needs, technology changes, compliance changes, or a sudden disruption in supply chain.

AI's benchmarks for Stage Five

Flow metrics: Time to pivot < 1 week. Time to release value every day.
Cost savings impact: $30M+
Forecast psychological safety: Very high
Forecast NPS: < 80+

How to stay at Stage 5:

Invest in value stream management and system thinking underpinned by value-based metrics for continuous improvement from frameworks like Evidence Based Management (EBM).

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