Our mission at Agility 11 is for our clients to achieve Business Agility – this means going beyond just “doing Agile” to improving business results by leveraging Lean & Agile practices. We will guide you in the adoption of Lean & Agile practices and help you avoid the pitfalls along the way.

Our coaching program guides you through four steps toward Business Agility.

1. Strategy & Alignment

2. Learning & Practicing

3. Accelerating & Optimizing

4. Sustaining Innovation

Strategy & Alignment

The first and most important part of any Agile transformation initiative is create an effective long-term strategy that creates alignment across the organization – from top to bottom – around why we are doing this and how we will get there.

Agility 11 will facilitate workshops with your leadership team and delivery teams to create a long-term strategy for your Agile transformation, tailored to your organization’s culture.

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” — Mark Fields, CEO & Ford Motor Co.

Learning & Practicing

With a strategy in place and alignment across the organization, Agility 11 will work ‘in the trenches’ with your delivery teams and leadership team to introduce new practices and become proficient quickly. Depending on the selected strategy, this may involve some or all of these activities.

1. Training for teams and stakeholders

   • Scrum, Kanban, Product Management, Agile leadership, Agility at scale, Agile software practices (XP), DevOps

2. In-the-trenches coaching for delivery teams to implement core Lean-Agile practices and overcome hurdles to adoption

3. Leadership team & transformation team coaching to refine and implement your Agile strategy as new lessons are learned within the organization

Accelerating & Optimizing

Once your teams and organization have successfully implemented the basics of their new practices, it is time to build on that success by fine-tuning and optimizing practices to best suit your organization, and for people to internalize the principles behind these practices. This will develop the whole organization’s ability to continuously improve and achieve better business results.

At this stage in your journey, Agility 11 offers:

1. Strategic & Leadership coaching: overcoming the obstacles that have emerged

2. Advanced training and coaching: fine-tuning your leadership, team and product practices to achieve high performance and predictability

Sustaining Innovation

Here is the reality about successful Agile transformations: the journey never truly ends. Successful organizations never stop improving and innovating.

“The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else." -- Eric Ries

At this stage in the journey, we help you integrate, institutionalize and sustain successful practices across the organization, from leadership to sales to business support functions to product/project delivery. This is how to achieve true Business Agility.

During this phase, Agility 11 offers these services:

1. Sustainment Strategy Workshops

2. Coach the Coach: building your internal capability to continuously improve

3. Periodic leadership coaching: on-site, remote, and via coaching circles

4. Agile Leadership workshops and training

Agile Transformation Case Studies

Agility 11 guided a Fortune 500’s Web Marketing division to reduce cycle time by 38% and reduce defects by 47%. Ericsson transformed a 2000-person global organization to achieve business agility. Read how they did it…