Program leaders CAN triumph over these common challenges – and look like superheroes in the process.
Getting individual teams on board with agile is hard. Scaling agile across the enterprise
is really hard. As organizations move beyond the adoption of agile at the team level,
program leaders are charged with the Herculean task of communicating strategic goals
down to working teams while delivering status updates up the chain from ceremonious
meetings and managing expectations at the portfolio and executive levels. All the while,
they have to make sure they’re positioning teams to deliver value to customers and
meeting top-level organizational goals.
Needless to say, these circumstances create the potential for lots of challenges and
roadblocks. Here’s how to overcome them.