Starting Agile Journey

1. Start without calling yourself Agile.
2. Don't buy into standard stuff practised elsewhere and adopting in your workplace -- Spotify, Netflix, etc. have a context; Simply monkeying them in your organisation won't make you agile.
3. Grow your Agile organically.
4. Understand the context of your organisation, the whys and wherefores and why exactly you want to go Agile.
5. Implement a holistic agile framework --
1. Make your entire organisation agile
2. Consciously and diligently remove organisational impediments to agility
3. Restructure your teams -- self organising, self sufficient teams, fix procurement, fix operations teams, fix support teams, etc.
4. Fix your funding model
5. Fix your procurement
6. Fix your portfolio management; make it lean
7. Define agile framework pertinent to your org.
8. Grow home capability; if you must hire, hire people including agile ones in permanent roles.
9. Kick out consultants, you don't need them. 
10. Coaches are good, however ensure you have only very senior folks who have implemented it in other organisations. Get them into the organisation fold instead of contracting. 
11. Avoid remote work for Agile coaching. It won't work.
12. Likewise as far as possible avoid remote work even for day to day Agile.
13. Remove the stupid concept of hot desks. It isn't working anymore, and for Agile it definitely doesn't. Instead have a dedicated room / space for the teams. 
14. Reduce vendor dependency. Bring down the vendor count.
15. Don't allow HR to lead the Agile transformation. 
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