It’s Hard to Roadmap Your Way to Agile Excellence
Imagine a Powerpoint slide with a graphic of a roadway that stretches from left to right. Along the road, there are callouts for different scenic features or attractions along the way. You can imagine what you’d see as you move along the road. It’s visually appealing and easy to understand.
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen these road images used as a metaphor for the agile transformation journey. They can be reassuring to leaders in providing more certainty of what changes will happen and when. They can be challenging for agile coaches to create and agree upon.
If you find yourself struggling to create a roadmap to excellence for your agile transformation, check out this presentation on Getting to Better Problems that Tim Haagenson and I shared virtually at the AgileShift conference. We applied the improvement kata to frame desired outcomes and experiments, and we found that it enabled teams to have more ownership and buy-in of the changes needed for success.