Have you ever undertaken an Agile, DevOps, Product or Digital transformation? Was the first step you took to baseline your current organizational culture and behaviors? If the answer was no, then you are most likely part of the overwhelming percentage of organizations that have either failed in their transformation or have seen far fewer benefits from the transformation than they had expected.
The reality is that when we discuss Agile, DevOps, Products or Agility we are talking about a philosophy, mindset shift which requires changes in the organization’s culture and behaviors. A common belief among the Agile community is that by implementing Scrum, Kanban or another framework and focusing on them intently you will over time change the organization’s culture and behaviors. This belief is simply false, in order to change an organization’s culture and behaviors, you must first baseline them, understand them, determine what culture and behaviors you desire and then put into place a plan to start altering them. Ask yourself, do you know how to baseline an organization’s culture and behaviors?
In finishing up, we also want to highlight another common mistake we see many practitioners making and that is constantly mixing up organizational culture and organizational behaviors, they are not the same thing, and you truly need to understand the differences.
These are a few of the themes we cover in the Organizational Culture/Behaviors Learning Path.
