Team level agility is essentially a solved problem but scaling agility to the enterprise is challenging. I am proposing a pattern language for enterprise agility to allow practitioners to communicate and work together to solve the enterprise agility problem.

1. Enterprise Agility
Patterns
To understand is to percieve patterns
Isaiah Berlin

2. Team Based Agility

3. Scaling By Teams

4. Scaling By Teams

5. Scaling By Teams

6. Scaling By Teams

7. Water Scrum Fall
? ?

8. Water Less Fall
? ?

9. Water SAFe Fall
? ?

10. SAFe As Often Implemented

11. Sub Optimising
? ?
Delivery/Execution

12. Alignment
? ?
Add Business Value Deliver On Time And Budget Reduce Operational Risk

13. Alignment Of Purpose
? ?
Add Business Value

14. Patterns
Pattern
(noun)
1 -a regular and intelligible form or
sequence discernible in the way in which
something happens or is done.

15. Alignment Patterns
A library of pattern families based on the
direction and extent of organisational
alignment

16. Bottom Up

17. Top Down

18. Middle Out

19. Delivery Lead

20. Business Lead

21. Alignment Direction
Top
Bottom
Business
Delivery

22. Growth Patterns
A library of pattern families based on how
agility grows within the organisation

23. Big Bang
Agile

24. Practice At A Time
Agile

25. Metastasis
Agile
AgileAgile
Agile
Agile
Agile

26. Layer Cake
Agile
Agile

27. Hamburger
AgileAgile

28. Execution
How we execute agility within the
organisation
● Less
● SAFe
● Scrum
● XScale
● DAD
● ...

29. Alignment>Growth>Execution
Bottom Up Metastasis SAFe?
Bottom Up Metastasis Scrum
Better
Alignment

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