Organization Business Agility
Assessment Template Details
Organization Business Agility
This template focuses on the best practices and characteristics of a resilient, innovative, and agile organization. Influenced by many Agile & Lean thought leaders, this template provides an opportunity for organization leaders to reflect and improve on the behaviors, qualities, and capabilities required of an organization in today’s fast-moving business environments.
Ideal For
Either senior leadership at the enterprise level or the leadership of a specific unit who want to improve their Business Agility capabilities.
References
Works of thought leaders that influenced the Practice's Technique Criteria, assigned Agility Stage, and impacted Business Outcomes.
Questions/Practices by Practice Dimension
25 total practices
Value Driven
• Organization Customer Centricity
• Organization Discovery
• Organization Focus on Value
• Organization Mission & Purpose
• Organization Product Orientation
Dynamics
• Organization Accountability
• Organization Safety
• Organization Synergy
Quality
• Organization Architecture
• Organization DevOps
• Organization Focus on Quality
• Organization Technical Enablers
Adapt
• Organization Deliverable Size
• Organization Flow of Value
• Organization Funding
• Organization Iterative Planning
• Organization Sustainability
• Organization Teams
Improve
• Organization Continuous Improvement
• Organization Learning Culture
• Organization Metrics
Leadership
• Organization Change Management
• Organization Communication
• Organization Leadership Enabling
• Organization Leadership Mindset
Practice Technique Criteria Example
Organization Synergy
Starting (0)
There is a lack of shared ownership, timely input, and direct interaction between different units of the organization
Developing (1)
Organization members have a clear and common understanding of the vision and goals of the initiatives they are working on
The organization uses a common language to describe their work
Organization members know what each other are working on and ensure open lines of communication, alignment of efforts, and management of dependencies
Emerging (2)
The organization has collaborative workspaces (on-site or remote) and utilizes collaboration tools for communication, sharing, and fun
Organization members listen to one another's opinions and consider tradeoffs
Adapting (3)
Organization members at all levels provide feedback to one another on how they can improve
Organization members make time to pair with others to learn a new domain and skills
Organization members succeed and fail as one; no finger-pointing
Optimizing (4)
Organization members are willing to chip in on important work outside of their function/unit to get things done
Organization leaders are well versed in advanced techniques that create synergies across units; they coach organization members and ensure it exists