Recent IT strategy research highlights the role of IT service climate in driving positive IT service quality, and we extend this work in the form of a theoretical model that relates an organization's internal IT service perceptions to IT agility. We hypothesize a partially mediated relationship ...
Agile Organization - Creating the Climate for InnovationMalgorzata Kusyk
Yes, an organization is agile only when its workforce is agile. Not only leaders and top managers need to exhibit agility but also the employees at all levels of hierarchy. And this is possible only when people feel empowered; develop multiple skill-sets; show willingness to take challenges; ...
When you’re creating an agile architecture, how can you tell when you’ve built just enough? It's important to have a clear picture of the purpose of any new undertaking or change, agile included. In some cases, it can be so long overdue that the list of objectives is unw...
WeTransfer hired Xebia to assist in creating an Agile organization. Operations, instrumentation, and infrastructure needed a revamp to create a broader foundation for flexible growth. While Xebia’s work at WeTransfer started as an infrastructure coaching assignment, it soon expanded into a full Dev...
The most crucial quality of an agile organization is how well it’s members make decisions that produce the results needed. The problem with this ‘truth’ is that, by itself, it doesn’t provide much guidance. It’s hard not respond with, “Make good decisions?! Well…duh! Of course ...
Agile ways of working foster innovation and organizational redesign People are a far more fundamental factor in organizational success than either design or technology. Creating an environment that supports people and allows them to shine is the key. Naturally, leadership plays an important role. ...
Success depends on how quickly an organization can adapt to a changing environment. Too often the potential and creativity of employees are not made use of because emerging topics are not taken up and learning processes are not channelled towards shared goals. ...
“making better homes a reality for everyone, everywhere”, we had to become truly consumer-centric. But to do so, we needed to better understand the diverse markets and audiences LIXIL was serving. Diverse teams can often relate and empathize the most with consumers, but if an organization'...
A good reference would be to aim for being able to describe a single Boundary with just one to five Agile user stories. Figure 13: Example of Domain Event Boundaries Expanding on our previous example, we have an Order Completion context that updates the order’s record and the customer’s...