What is Agile Culture?
The Agile Business Consortium defines agile culture as ‘creating an environment that is underpinned by values, behaviours and practices which enable organisations, teams and individuals to be more adaptive, flexible, innovative and resilient when dealing with complexity, uncertainty and change.’
An organisation’s culture reflects its personality – one that’s influenced by a range of factors, including its size, geographic spread, beliefs, and values. People and events also affect an organisation’s culture.
An agile culture provides an organisation with a set of core values, behaviours and practices that allow it to prosper in a world characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.
Its success also comes from promoting, encouraging, rewarding and harnessing the flexible and innovative behaviour of people within the organisation, spurred by the three components of intrinsic motivation (as espoused by Daniel Pink): autonomy, mastery and purpose.
The Agile Business Consortium has identified seven elements that combine to form the DNA of an organisation’s agile culture, for which it has created a Development Matrix for Agile Culture describing five levels of agility for each of the seven elements.
Agile Culture Development Matrix
We have defined seven elements of agile culture DNA and developed the free Agile Culture Development Matrix, which describes five levels of agility for each of the seven elements.
The Agile Culture Pulse Survey
The Agile Culture Pulse Survey is a simple free tool that shows where your team sits for each of the seven elements of Agile Culture DNA (in under 10 minutes). We can then recommend a set of actions that you may take to help improve your organisation's agile culture.
Find out more about how it works, or click the button below to take the survey.
