The world is changing. Disruptors are appearing more frequently, and customers have access to more information, offerings, and engagement experiences than ever before. This creates both risk and opportunity. 

It is no longer the large leading the small,  it is the fast leading the slow as the market disruptors have proven over the past decade. Today, the speed to market isn’t just about products and services, it extends across from customer experiences to whole of business functions.

To remain competitive, most organisations are transitioning to Agile  across their innovation, product and service streams – and the more innovation organisations are applying it across their entire business. Those that do change are realising higher rates of delivery success compared to traditional approaches like Waterfall.  According to the Standish Group, Agile project have 300% more chance of being successful compared to Waterfall across all projects.

While the headline is compelling, the detail for large projects shows a more varied result. This is to be expected – organisations are approaching Agile with varied levels of diligence, rigour, commitment, support and maturity, and secondly, trying to scale both up and out with a methodology that wasn’t natively designed to do so.

By design, Agile models place less emphasis on planning, documentation, reporting and governance processes, focusing more on rapid delivery of small iterative changes. The small iterative sprints enable teams to deliver change aligned to the audience much faster than before, building customer confidence and loyalty – but at the cost of the scalable planning and assurance mechanisms traditionally used to provision benefits management and ongoing value aligned to the strategic objectives.

We mitigate these shortcomings in Agile for your project streams and whole of business transformations with the planning, mobilisation, delivery and recalibration solutions you want, backed by the scalable assurance and governance methodologies you need.