What makes or breaks an Agile Transformation?

Is it the framework you pick? Is it the tools you use? Is it how many teams dutifully exercise their sprints?

I often see significant focus on choosing a scaling framework, teaching people how to do method xyz and picking “agile” tools. ???

But that is only a tiny percentage of what helps a company to become truly agile!

What is much more important than all the above, is how you view and treat other human beings! ?

As long as you…

? squeeze your employees into job descriptions, 
? punish them for failure, 
? force processes onto them to check quality, 
? tell them how to work, 
? not let them talk to the customer or see all business data,

…you’re essentially treating them as incapable & lazy human beings.  

A key ingredient for agility is:

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⭐️⭐️ Treat your employees (including managers) as adults! 
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? Always assume positive intent (API), even if they made mistakes or underdelivered
? Trust them
? Understand that intrinsic motivation is the force
? Let them decide how to work and what to work on
? Give them a vision, give them all they need to do their work, and then get the heck out of the way

That change in how a company culture views human beings is more decisive for the success of an agile transformation than any framework or tool could ever be.

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