Tony and Craig catch up with Tony Christensen and Steve Berez, co-author of “Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos” as well as from Bain & Company and they chat about:

• Saw a lot of companies doing agile wrong and a lot of pain suffering and probably worse off than when they started – book is to try to share learning and get agile on the right track
• The conditions for agile to flourish need to change, particularly beyond team level
• RBS – one of the key impediments was funding, changed to funding persistent teams
• Most organisations have a dissatisfaction with their financial process – need to have an honest conversation around the pain points of trust and process and seeing the promise of early return
• Bosch – were not innovating as quickly as they needed to, now using Agile for product design, manufacturing process and supply change…