AgileSHIFT Enterprise Agility Training and Exam

AgileSHIFT’s contribution to cultural agility helps remove institutional and behavioural barriers that inhibit successful change, improves adaptability and faster response times. Vital capabilities for organisations operating in a market place characterised by increasing customer demands and disruptors actively shaking up the established players.

Where agile approaches such as agile Scrum, AgilePM, SAFe and Kanban predominantly focus at the product delivery level, AgileSHIFT is seen as the very first agile framework of its type that focuses on organisational agility underpinned by a culture of agility.

The AgileSHIFT framework is made up of five principles and five practices everyone within an organization can adapt and adopt. It outlines a delivery method comprising roles, competencies, workflows, tools and techniques.

At the heart of the AgileSHIFT framework are these five principles:

• The change will happen, so embrace it
• Focus on the co-creation of customer value
• Develop an environment where everybody adds value
• Challenge the status quo

• Enable rapid go-to-market solutions
• Support development of customer-centric solutions through rapid customer feedback
• Tackle silo approaches and encourage cross-divisional challenging of out-dated procedures, processes and rules
• Increase organisational energy by encouraging autonomy through self-organising teams, a team-work approach to challenges and growth with the development of new skills
• Enhancing enterprise agility by aligning front-line business functions with development teams that may already be actively applying agile ways of working. Enabling collaboration, innovation, greater productivity, flexibility and adaptability.

The premise of AgileSHIFT is that an organization exists to serve and satisfy its customers (and other stakeholders) in the co-creation of value.