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The Secret to Overcoming the Trials and Tribulations of Agile Transformation: cmswire.com/leadership/the… A look at why you may need an agile transformation team.

Five steps towards an #agile organization in government: bettergovs.org/2021/07/five-s…

Kickstarting #Innovation Across Whitehall: governmentcomputing.com/technology/com…

Universal Credit: What went wrong, and what we learned: computerweekly.com/opinion/Univer… Summary: Perhaps the agile practitioners we ought to have been listening to are not making this stuff up after all.

3 Essential Agile Failure Patterns in 7:31 Minutes—Making Your Scrum Work: business2community.com/strategy/3-ess…

DevSecOps Enables VA Digital Transformation governmentciomedia.com/devsecops-enab… “We've got some product lines that are released every 2 weeks. That's really the target goal for all 32 of our product lines: to get to that cadence where it's persistent releases & we're really walking the walk”

6 Key Reasons Why Agile Transformations Fail (And How to Avoid Them): netsolutions.com/insights/how-t… My 2c: A common issue is senior leadership failing to create, communicate & reinforce a sense of urgency for change. It has to anchor everyone's working day, including the frozen middle.

Do Executives Help or Hinder Agile Teams? informationweek.com/strategic-cio/… Meow: An excellent post on executive psychopathology, and how #agile change is stifled where "hubris and narcissism dominate".

Fixing government digital transformation – lessons from the early days of GDS: computerweekly.com/opinion/Fixing… Key quote: "It’s waterfall by another name — a series of sequential steps labelled Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live." #UKGovIT

Here’s how to flip the odds in favour of your digital transformation: weforum.org/agenda/2021/01… Quote: "Middle managers need to be on board as much as CEOs & agility is key." My 2c: Sometimes called the "frozen middle", they are often the principal source of organizational gravity.

Navy to stand up #DevSecOps task force: fcw.com/articles/2021/… My 2c: The challenge facing any org isn't the standing up of task forces, or even the empowering of change agents. Rather, what are they going to *stop doing*, so the change they hope for gains traction & has effect?

2020 in review: Pentagon leads federal #DevSecOps efforts fedscoop.com/federal-devsec… Quote: "Many federal coding teams & contractors have embraced #DevOps practices but still tack the “Sec” onto the end of the s/w dev lifecycle". Note: A robust Definition of Done would address this.

Team-Level Agile Anti-Patterns - Why They Exist and What to Do about Them: infoq.com/news/2020/12/t…

WEF releases "#Agile Regulation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Toolkit for Regulators" weforum.org/pages/agile-re… Quote: "In one UK study, just 29% of the businesses surveyed thought that regulation enabled innovative products & services to be brought to market efficiently"

Organisational-Level #Agile Anti-Patterns - Why They Exist and What to Do about Them: infoq.com/news/2020/11/o…

Government was tempted by ‘shiny technology’ contact tracing app: ukauthority.com/articles/gover… Apparently, “agile on steroids” means "technologists working long hours to get [services] live". #AbsolutelySpeechless #WhenWillTheyEverLearn #SustainablePace #UKGovIT #agile #fail

18F guide outlines common reasons why agency IT projects fail — and how to avoid them: federalnewsnetwork.com/it-modernizati… They've issued a "de-risking" guide for state and federal bodies: derisking-guide.18f.gov #agile #GovIT

Gallup poll shows execs feel they've rapidly & profoundly increased agility. Employees disagree: gallup.com/workplace/3158… My 2c: Problem is execs delegate change, which is then faked. The result is agile go-faster stripes over their fundamentally unchanged & glacially moving orgs.

Bas Vodde on LeSS, LeSS Huge and Descaling for Agility: infoq.com/podcasts/less-…

Talent Or Model: Isn't That The Real Transformation Question? #3a66efab184a" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">forbes.com/sites/forbeste… Quote "The root cause of so much failure could be our inability to address the people problem…an element that ultimately can make any model successful or can make any transformation a disaster"