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Missouri Agile 2 = Transition

Utilize balanced team-centric leadership for solving enterprise objectives.

Now that we are past the formalized Agile Assessment let's move into Agile Transition.  Now by this point you hopefully have full buy in from the assessment conversations.  Now the transition begins.

Missouri Customers

Some information I know about Missouri is I believe the state was admitted or ratified to the United States around or about 'August 10, 1821'.  Missouri is located around latitude '38.573936' and longitude of '-92.60376' and has a population of roughly '6,154,913 million'.  If I remember correctly the capital is 'Jefferson City' and the largest city is 'Kansas City'. 

Saddle Up!

Here we go.  It's time to get excited.  Let's create a formalized stepped, prioritized transition around how we envision things going.  Now bear in mind, you will need everyone's input here because workflow is important, systems are priority, processes have dependencies and failure is not an option.

Hammer Time

It's time to make sure everyone is accounted for, present, responding to emails and IM's and ready to engage in meetings where scheduled.  Whomever your organization has decided is the leader will take the reins and guide the discussions around a coordinated effort to move to Agile.  This is the time that if you have people close vest and not willing to assist or resistant to the process that you take down names, watch their actions, hear their words and assess where they are in this journey.

Resistance is Futile

Set Phasers on Stun!  Ok, well seriously it isn't time for that yet.  Let's hold that thought for later though.  People have motives.  Adjusting to people lobbing grenades is part of the process of resistance.  Be ready to pick through what your told, suggestions and look to others on the team to help relate all input.  Just be prepared for it and have a plan of action.

Vendor Transitioning

Some organizations which already utilize Agile utilize it to organize major transition management for entire vendor handoff of IT services.  Yes, you heard me right.  Therefore, of handoff of IT to vendors is a transition of processes, applications, databases, hosting, infrastructure landscape, services, vendor hand-offs, SLA's, configurations, licenses, monitoring, backups etc.  These efforts require assessing and documenting languages, database types, versions and get ready for the next stage the Transition.  Knowledge transfer, reverse shadowing is critical for vendor transitioning.  Hopefully your Agile Transition is not that complicated and on a smaller scale.

If at any point you decide to reach to me just know the area codes I am familiar with for Missouri are '314, 417, 573, 636, 660, 816'.  For Agile 2 = Transition assistance you will find my rates very reasonable for Missouri.  Now just keep in mind my time zone is 'Eastern Standard Time (EST)' and I know the time zones in Missouri are 'Central Standard Time (CST)' in case you wish to call me.  Anyway let me continue.

Monitoring The Process

A requirement is feedback to management on the Agile process, where we are with each phase and a general description on how things are going.  If you see realistically full Agile adoption is not good for the organization but will be a hybrid approach just communicate to management.  See what they say.  It is frowned upon to not go full agile.  Believe me they will get over it.  Agile can be in baby steps, phased and the organization can move at its own safe pace.  I mention safe because the last thing you want is a whole department quitting because they are reluctant to change.  Agilists just don't get that part because they are typically so engrained in following the 'Agile Manifesto' dogma to realize in real life not everyone drank the whole glass of Agile juice and doesn't see things the same way because not every company or process cycle is the same.

You know, I don't make it out to Missouri much but I would like to see the 'Bluebird' state bird.  I am a little familiar with the Missouri 'Hawthorn' state flower as well.  However, I do not know much about Missouri's state tree the 'Flowering Dogwood'.  Fishing is fun to me perhaps I would like reeling in the Missouri 'Channel Catfish' state fish.  Anyway, sorry I went off topic.  Let me continue.

Safe

I mention safe here because the Safe Framework will come up.  Someone always brings it up.  Most organizations in my opinion will move to safe from a Scaled Agile framework.  Thus, Agile Operations with Lean governance.  If you decide to go that route, please, please use Microsoft Azure DevOps and drop Jira.  I personally believe Azure DevOps is a better project management full solution product.  You won't be sorry.

Ok, let's move on...

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