Life Cycle of “Agile Power Tower”. EoL Expectations. Alternatives.
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Synopsis:
What is a typical life cycle of a centralized organizational structure that is responsible for agile transformation?
Sometimes, they are named differently:
- Enterprise Agility Office
- Center of Agile Excellence
- Enterprise Agile Transformation
- <something_big> <something_big> Department
Generalization: "“Agile Power-Tower”
- How do agile transformations start? Who usually spearheads an effort?
- Are there any ways to predict a degree of expansion and duration?
- How a traditional organizational structure influences a tower structure
- Where are agile transformation structures located?
- How do these structures expand: what talent is being used?
- What internal reporting hierarchy is being used in these structures?
- What are these structures focused on?
- How do these structures influence the rest of an organization?
- How are these structures funded? <<<= IMPORTANT
End Of Life (EOL) expectations:
- HOW and WHY do these structures shrink or cease to exist, over time?
- What happens to people in these structures? Do all of them have the same type_of exit?
- What are some of the telltale signs that a structure is about to start shrinking?
- Are there any alternatives to Agile Power-Towers?
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