Agility is a path. It is a journey; a journey of continuous improvement. Increasing enterprise agility requires that top-down change management is connected to the bottom-up enthusiasm of Scrum.
Ken Schwaber and Gunther Verheyen from Scrum.org started presenting the new "Agility Path" framework in July 2013. It was first presented at the Scrum Day Europe in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and at a SIG event by the VKSI in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Agility Path introduces the use of the Scrum framework to manage the change process toward increased agility across the organization, without making Scrum the mandatory process for the entire organization.
Scrum – Success ends with the middle managementAccording to industry analysts ‘the methods wars are over and scrum has won’ with Scrum becoming the de-facto Agile process of choice for most organizations. But its adoption is neither complete nor as effective as it could be with Scrum being forced into organizations that are neither adaptive nor Agile in nature. The long-term success of Scrum rests with changing the organizations that it operates in. It rests with changing the middle management practices, processes and mindset. In this talk Ken Schwaber, co-creator of Scrum discusses what agility means to organizations and why middle management is so important to organizations staying on course towards this goal. He will introduce a new management approach, Enterprise Scrum, which provides practical advice how organizations can initiate and manage change towards agility.