Agile Success Factors
This page lists factors critical to the success of Agile at a client.
The discussion of Team Success Factors has been moved to TeamSuccessfactors.
Factors for Success of Agile at a client:
Note: Which of these are symptoms and which are underlying factors??
- Most Agile projects are viewed as successful
- Assume there are two or more major "programs" at the client. Does this mean that the agile projects related to those programs must all succeed?
- Is project success viewed as 'delivered the functionality close to "expected date" and close to or on budget' ?
- as opposed to "delivered the customer's most important features to production quickly and with high quality" which I'd consider a more suitable Agile goal.
- Most teams are happier with Agile (prefer Agile to waterfall)
- Most product owners are happy with Agile
- A good cadre of internal SMs
- The coming backlash (who has that crystal ball when I need it?) by the "waterfall people" is not successful
- Continuing success in overcoming (improving on) larger blocks
- Continued improvement in Time To Market
- Visibility to the business side that better ROI is being achieved
- Continued movement toward "better agile"
- "Better agile" might also be called "purer agile", except that some would argue that pure agile does not exist.
- Agile is viewed as less risky than waterfall
- eg, somewhat less documentation is not viewed as riskier
- doing Agile inside a waterfall organization is not viewed as problematic - whereas it's actually quite risky
- selling Agile in such an environment is a big task in itself, and necessary to get understanding and collaboration of colleagues outside the Agile team. This overhead can reduce the return normally expected of Agile.
- dependencies on teams still working in muda-time can be crazy-making - failed dependencies reflect on the Agile team despite originating outside.
- Agile shows up other groups' muda, making it unpopular and a target to be thwarted or shut down.
Comments
- Who did the very last sub-bullet? I am thinking there may be several thoughts in that item -- that might be better expressed as multiple bullets. Certainly I would like to understand better what you meant. -- Joe
- maybe it was me... I can't recall which page I was editing when the wiki crashed my browser yesterday. Anyway, I can elaborate on that one --deb
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