Manage transformations with agility

Agile approaches have many advantages. They are suitable for dealing with uncertainty, they allow adaptive planning and they are faster than conventional project management. Exactly what we need for a transformation.

That's why we set up an agile transformation team at the start of a transformation. The transformation owner describes the transformation vision and thus provides a good orientation without anticipating the solution. He or she describes the expected results in a transformation backlog. This typically contains EPICs on topics such as business model, strategy, business processes, organizational structure, corporate culture and change management.

The transformation owner agrees both the transformation vision and the backlog with his or her stakeholders and then integrates them into the further process.

Together with the development team, the transformation owner plans and organizes the implementation in overarching stages and sprints. Results are developed iteratively and feedback is provided by the stakeholders. With each new sprint plan, the transformation team can react to changing framework conditions, new requirements and stakeholder feedback. Results can be implemented, tested and optimized at an early stage. Of course, this approach also works in a scaled approach with multiple teams.