DZone

Many organizations are embracing Agile ways of working in an attempt to build faster, more customer-focused and resilient organizations. They are redesigning themselves to create a culture where decision making is transitioned away from middle management towards those working with customers on the front lines. Ultimately, they seek engagement in order to create a culture where staff is empowered to truly delight customers. Autonomy is the critical ingredient; however, autonomy is often misunderstood. Many organizations think they just need to increase autonomy, however, they forget to include the counter-balance of accountability, often with disastrous results.

Recently, many senior leaders have shared a concern with Radically. It is happening so much that it is becoming a pattern. They are telling us, often with hushed voices, that they feel they cannot ask important business questions such as, “When do you think this will be done?” or, “How is cost tracking?” or, “Will we hit our launch date?” When they do ask these questions, they get proudly shunned and told that these questions "aren’t Agile".

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