Craig chats with Steve Elliott, the founder and CEO of Agile Craft and they discuss:

• Dependencies are the number one thing that kills agility
• Scaling agility across a large organisation is a 5 – 10 year journey
• Scrum is often disconnected from the portfolio planning layer, the scaling methods are making the program level agile and predictable
• If you want business agility you have to hinge the technology into the business
• Sometimes it takes a few attempts for agile transformations, like tipping over a Coke machine (and unlike tipping a cow), you need to lead with results and then work on cultural change to be successful
• If the leader of an Agile transformation left the organisation, would they go back to the old way or is Agile part of their DNA – if they would go back they have not been transformed
• The scaling Agile frameworks are relatively new…