Business Agility event 2018 hosted by IndigoCube was on 17th July at Fairlawns Boutique Hotel. Jaco Viljoen, Head of Digital presented on Business Agility: a Roadmap to the Digital Enterprise.

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International Certified Training, Consulting and Software Provider
Business Agility:
A Roadmap to the
Digital Enterprise
Jaco Viljoen
Principal Consultant
(and Manager Digital BU)
jaco@indigocube.co.za

2. Agenda
• What is Business Agility?
• Ideal Form of Business Agility
• The Journey Towards Business Agility
• People
• Process
• Technology
• Disciplined Agile 2.0 and Business Agility
• Summary

3. What is Business Agility?
• Business agility is the ability of a digital enterprise that
continuously adapts to a rapidly changing and complex
world.
1. A rapidly changing and complex world
2. A digital enterprise that continuously adapts
3. Business agility is the ability
• It is the true destination of improvement effort

4. Ideal Form of Business Agility
• “Continuousness” drives business agility
• Continuously “Sense and Respond”
• Thousands of improvements per day
• Facebook release cycle is "quasi-continuous“ (tens to hundreds of commits are batched
together and pushed every few hours)1
• Uber Micro Deploy (Thousands deployments per day, 10% rejects)2
• Leverage digital capabilities
• Collaboration across business, development and operations
• Product Management (NOT Project Management) to create flow
• End-to-end automation of BizDevOps toolchain (to support flow)
• Experimentation (/data) drives improvement
• Ability to modify dynamically the concepts and structures of the business itself
• Way of Work (WOW)
• New Products
• New Business Models
1. https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/09/facebook-release-scale
2. https://eng.uber.com/micro-deploy/
Business
Agility

5. The Journey Towards Business Agility

6. The Journey Towards Business Agility
• Approach: Building Capabilities (not Maturity)
• Five Levels of Business Agility (clusters of business capabilities,
business ecosystem, operating model, culture, way-of-work):
• Waterfall/Traditional (lowest in business agility)
• Hybrid Agile
• Regular Delivery
• Continuous Delivery
• Continuous Exploration (highest in business agility)
• Examples: How to build capabilities
• People
• Process
• Technology/Tools

7. LowBusinessAgilityHighBusinessAgility
• Full Lifecycle: “Concept to Cash”
• Barriers to collaboration or
communication
• Breaking down the barriers
People

8. LowBusinessAgilityHighBusinessAgility
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• WOW
• Shorter
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9. LowBusinessAgilityHighBusinessAgility
• Project, Portfolio Management
Platform
• MS Project (Gant Charts)
• Automation Platform
• IT Automation
• Business Automation
• Enterprise Planning Platform
• Agile Team Planning
• Agile Program and Portfolio Planning
• Experimentation Platform
• A/B Test
• Canary Test (Staged Rollout, Beta
Release, Dark Launch)
• Wizzard of Ozz
• Personalization Campaign
Technology
Enterprise Planning Platform
Enterprise Planning Platform
Enterprise Planning Platform
Test & Deploy (Scripts)
Automation
Agile Team Planning
(Sticky Notes)
Automation Platform
Project, Portfolio Management Platform
Project, Portfolio Management Platform
Experimentation Platform (Feature Flags)
Automation Platform
Experimentation Platform (Full out experimentation)
PPM Platform
Automation Platform

10. Disciplined Agile and Business Agility
• Disciplined Agile (DA) Framework
• process decision framework
• provides light-weight guidance
• to help organizations streamline their processes
• in a context-sensitive manner,
• providing a solid foundation for business agility.
• Building blocks like Lego:
• DAD Agile Lifecycles
• Inception, Construction and Transition Phases
• Process Blades (with Goals and Strategies)
• Using 5 levels of Business Agility as a Roadmap

11. LowBusinessAgilityHighBusinessAgility
Plan IT Release
Schedule
Schedule
Solution Release
Coordinate
Release Schedule
• Schedule
as-needed
releases
• Schedule
continuous
releases
(release
stream)
• Continuous
delivery
cadence
• Release
Train
• Schedule
regular
releases
(release
train)
• Incremental
delivery
cadence
• Release
Windows
• Identify
blackout
periods
• Identify
release
windows
• Manage
release
dependen-
cies
• Communic
ate release
schedule
• Infrequent
delivery
• Unique
Project
Releases
• Unique
Project
Releases
• None

12. • Business agility is the ability of a digital enterprise that
continuously adapts to a rapidly changing and complex
world.
• Journey towards business agility
• Building capabilities as approach towards business agility
• Five levels of business agility
• Using Disciplined Agile 2.0 with five levels of business agility
as a roadmap for improving the digital enterprise
Summary

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14. Rapidly Changing and Complex World

15. Operating Model

16. • Levels of Business
Agility
• Distinct Operating
Models
• Capabilities
• Roadmap
Business agility is the outcome