Tony and Craig catch up with Tony Christensen and Steve Berez, co-author of “Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos” as well as from Bain & Company and they chat about:

• Saw a lot of companies doing agile wrong and a lot of pain suffering and probably worse off than when they started – book is to try to share learning and get agile on the right track
• The conditions for agile to flourish need to change, particularly beyond team level
• RBS – one of the key impediments was funding, changed to funding persistent teams
• Most organisations have a dissatisfaction with their financial process – need to have an honest conversation around the pain points of trust and process and seeing the promise of early return
• Bosch – were not innovating as quickly as they needed to, now using Agile for product design, manufacturing process and supply change operations – use Agile wherever a change need is required
• Best way to manage a transformation is in an agile way – problem is unfortunately a transformation has to be funded using the existing processes and adapt the process as you go
• Where Agile works well is where it is more organic – give the teams the tools for success and get out of the way
• Saab Gripen Fighter Jet – built using Agile
• Set the ambition to be a continuous internal learning organisation
• We need good recipes – Toyota and Spotify are good examples – sharing is of benefit to each other
• Persistent teams are recommended to get the best results. – there is a compelling economic argument for this as well
• How Agile Is Powering Healthcare Innovation – healthcare has had to innovate at a much more rapid pace than traditionally due to the global pandemic – built around small empowered teams that are focussed on the problem

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