You arrive with a mandate to transform and you find chaos. They think they are “doing Agile” but “it doesn’t work here”. They’ve “tried Kanban” and now they are in the middle of a “Scrum reset”. How do you persuade a whole organisation to embrace Agile when they already think Agile is a Dirty Word?

In my 4 years of being a ThoughtWorker I’ve experienced organisations in many different parts of the journey to delivering constant and consistent value. The most interesting places are those where they think they have tried everything and it hasn’t worked for them. Why did it not work for them? How did they get into the state they are in and, most importantly, how did we manage to demonstrate that Agile need not be a dirty word?