Make Software Delivery More Responsive To The Business

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Most firms are experiencing rapid and fundamental change in both business and technology. How do you cope? You must transform your software delivery approach — minor tweaks to traditionalapproaches won’t cut it. These traditional approaches sought to optimize technologies, assets, and specialized functions in pursuit of efficiency and value. Their supposed efficiency, modeled on massproduction, doesn’t work when the definition of the problem keeps changing, because app delivery leaders find it difficult to change their processes, technology, and team composition in response. Themodern world requires app delivery not only to be efficient but also to deliver faster and more flexibly. Lean is an effective approach to bringing this change, but realizing its promise requires deliveryleaders to: 1) empower a strategic team focused on bringing change; 2) re-align software delivery with the business; 3) introduce agile processes that focus on people; and 4) instill the rightarchitectures and tools to support flexible and responsive processes. Forrester’s Agile And Lean transformation playbook provides an end-to-end
solution for creating or improving your Agile and Leandelivery capability.

Key Takeaways

• Taking advantage of agile and lean requires a holistic transformation program - Agile promises greater flexibility, higher quality, and increased velocity, butwithout a holistic approach to transformation using Lean, it will only ever improve development team outcomes. It is time to adopt a holistic change program that not only adopts Agile practices but alsostreamlines the end-to-end value stream of software delivery.

• Transformation requires change to the end-to-end value chain - Streamlining the whole value chain from demand to deployment requiresorganizations to break down departmental, architectural, and political barriers. Visualization, clear measurements, and shared goals provide an environment that not only supports the value stream...