Agile Adoption Journey

Challenges and tasks

A Multinational Pharmaceutical Leader ($50 billion) wanted to adopt agile as the primary way of working in their IT organization to increase alignment with customer needs, improve speed and efficiency, and drive a more innovative, iterative culture. With a deeply engrained Waterfall approach, the shift to agile was seen as a major change for the organization.

OXYGY's Approaches

• A strong Leadership Team Commitment
  • Delivering hands on examples
  • Simplifying the complex environment
• Well prepared teams being ready for the upcoming transition
  • Opportunity to test and learn Agile behaviors & best practices
  • First Agile experience for all staff members
  • High, even improved pulse check results for Agile Adoption Readiness

Outcomes and value created

Improve Agile Culture

• Agile Values and Agile Mindsets survey done; findings addressed
• 4 LT workshops “How to drive an agile culture”; focus on living & role-modelling Agile Values & Mindsets
• Super-User Team launched, All Asscociate Session – asking the entire organization to support agile adoption in a challenging environment
• Agile Adoption Communication strategy launched to celebrate agile advantages

Enable organization to adapt to agile in delivery

• Email & Meeting Best Practices shared & Standups, Kanban, Planner, Retrospective launched & Coaching in place
• Projects nominated that can practice agile adoption supported by Agile Coaches
• Super-User Team launched, All Asscociate Session – asking the entire organization to support agile adoption in a challenging environment
• Agile Adoption Communication strategy launched to celebrate agile advantages

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