In agile environments, the need isn’t for more or less governance, but for governance that is structured, applied, and embedded differently. The approach to governance depends significantly on the maturity of the environment.
In a non-mature agile environment, governance often requires more upfront work as people establish their ways of working. However, as the environment matures, the need for intensive governance diminishes as trust, accountability and repeatability builds.
For instance, in every agile environment I’ve encountered—and I’ve worked with over 30-40 companies—there has always been a need for investment oversight, reporting, onboarding, timeline visibility, change management, audit, and scope management.
What changes is not the necessity for these elements, but how they are integrated into the workflow.
As I’ve been saying for almost a decade, it’s about putting #agile into governance, not #governance into agile.
To be clear, agile meaning ‘able to move quickly and easily’.
Unfortunately, poor execution of governance, or the lack thereof, often hinders delivery teams because it is implemented after the fact.
This retroactive approach causes teams to move away from being agile—quickly and easily.
Many people focus on the ‘quick’ aspect but lack the patience to consider the ‘easy’ part.
Effective governance in agile environments ensures that while teams move quickly, they also move with ease.
And if your teams aren’t moving ‘quickly and easily’ something is blocking them. With my short sharp discovery 💡 assessment I can help you figure out exactly what it is and why so you can #unblock your teams do they can do their best work.
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