{"id":1769,"date":"2020-03-23T11:58:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T11:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2020-08-12T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T16:16:08","slug":"companies-going-heavy-weight-with-scaling-agile-and-off-the-shelf-software-solutions-with-what-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/23\/companies-going-heavy-weight-with-scaling-agile-and-off-the-shelf-software-solutions-with-what-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Companies going heavy-weight with scaling Agile and off-the-shelf software solutions. With what results?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Both FitBit and Volvo Cars, for about two years, went through an Agile transformation to scale Agile using a heavy-weight scaled agile framework.
YNAP and Co-Op Insurance both tried to migrate their core systems developed internally to a heavy-weight off-the-shelf platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heavy-weight scaled agile framework<\/strong> here is intended, for example, as one with a guide of several hundred pages (instead of few tenths), that requires configuration and tailoring-down (instead of being simple and partially incomplete to fit loosely to leave room for adaptation and manoeuvre), with roles that increase the depth of the hierarchy and the hands-over (instead of flattening the hierarchy and supporting self-organisation).
Heavy-weight off-the-shelf platforms<\/strong> and out-of-the-box configurable white label products here is intended, for example, as overcomplicated and rigid third-party products that end-up requiring significant rewriting work, huge and complex data migration, and are hard and difficult to customise to fit the always changing and evolving market requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For FitBit, YNAP and Co-Op Insurance this had very tangible and negative impacts for their business. No tangible impact can currently be measured at Volvo Cars (it is too early to say).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FitBit and Volvo Cars case studies don’t show signs of a strong focus on tech excellence. The technical approach at YNAP and Co-Op was shattering.
None of the four companies shows any sign of alignment to the Agile mindset, that is considered a fundamental ingredient of any successful Agile adoptions, or any sign of autonomy of teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read the full account with all the sources: https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/the-mixed-results-of-companies-scaling-agile-with-a-scaled-framework\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An summary of the results of companies scaling agile with a heavy-weight framework and companies migrating to a heavy-weight off-the-shelf platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lean-agile","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}