In order to prevent additional costs and failure during the implementation of agile, we recommend each business to conduct a readiness assessment prior to re-organization. We developed a readiness assessment that considers 300 different indicators in order to define what agile practices will be the most suitable for your company. As the transition to sustainable agility resembles a steady development, agile approaches should be introduced step by step. Nonetheless, it is essential to consider the timeline of adoption: a great practice introduced at the wrong time might result in chaos and inefficiency. To avoid such loss, we offer to help you identify how ready your company is at a certain time for the application of a certain practice.
(Our procedure is simple.) No matter if your company has 10 or 1000 employees, the essence of the assessment is similar. Employees will be interviewed by using either paper- or web-based surveys, which will be then analyzed and interpreted. Its results will be summarized in a report highlighting your company's current strengths, weaknesses, as well as its readiness for agile practices. Moreover, it will reveal what characteristics are needed for the adoption of agile practices.
The assessment indicators are aggregated using special formulas and weights. The results are tabulated and a report is generated (see below a sample of the assessment report).
Assess Your Agile Readiness for Free with Dr. Agile
To promote the use of Agile and Scrum in organizations, Santeon Group has developed a free tool, Dr.Agile, to help teams get quick insight into their readiness to adopt 5 basic agile/scrum practices:
- Managing Requirements using a Backlog
- Working in Iterations
- Group Estimation
- Daily Standup Meeting
- Self-organized Teams
Beyond Dr. Agile
While Dr. Agile is a nice free tool to assess the readiness of small teams, if you would like to conduct an enterprise wide readiness assessment for over 40 different agile practices please contact us at agile@santeon.com for more information.
