Bringing all the benefits below creates a powerful and effective force for change. Have you met an expert who’s hard to understand, an Agile coach who doesn’t understand product strategy or someone pushing a framework regardless of its suitability? This can be the difference between success and failure.

Without Adaptive in place

You would select a single framework, and when it is not working well, blame the organisation’s skill level and push for more and more training
You would create a process and would resist changing or improving it
You would stick to creating outputs that aren’t optimised

Without Tailored in place

You would try to push for practices and outputs that don’t suit your environment. For example, you want to deliver every two weeks using Scrum in a heavily regulated environment.
You would not recognise environments that require upfront analysis and insist on an innovation approach for every change

Without End to end in place

You would focus all your efforts on the delivery teams rather than on issues outside of their control. In practice, this typically means you would not optimise aspects like organisational structure, strategy handover, and the removal of major blockers.

Without Scaled in place

You would not understand the organisation’s impact on how you work. For example, when you are in a small company in a low-risk environment, you may be highly innovative and take risks with your releases; this may be entirely unsuitable for a bank in a regulated environment.
You would insist on teams being given complete control of all aspects of strategy and delivery, creating conflict with the broader management teams
You would have change agents focussed on localise improvements rather than stepping back and looking at the bigger picture

Without Expert in place

You would find many anti-patterns occurring that could have been avoided with experience. For example, your scaled Agile project is out of control and running late, or your Objectives and Key Results provide you with little value.

Without Clarity in place

Your teams gain a surface-level understanding of concepts
You will struggle to implement change as people don’t understand things well

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