Sprinting to digital transformation: a time boxed, Agile approach

Abstract

Purpose

The Transformation Sprint methodology provides a customer-focused analysis process in which leaders can learn about how their digital operating model should and can evolve.

Design/methodology/approach

Agile transformation processes are a learning journey to produce a generative (learning) model. In an Agile setting, the plan should unfold along with experience.

Findings

Sprints with specific time spans are intended to circumvent scope-creep or other insidious ways that a project can overrun.

Practical implications

In Agile practice, showing and talking about work is a crucial part of the process. Transformation Sprints visualize Issues, Priorities and Points for Debate in notes posted on meeting room walls.

Originality/value

This article describes the Agile concepts that make a digital Transformation Sprint a potent addition to innovation practice.

Citation

Shaughnessy, H. and Goulding, F. (2021), "Sprinting to digital transformation: a time boxed, Agile approach", Strategy & Leadership, Vol. 49 No. 1, pp. 18-24. https://doi.org/10.1108/SL-12-2020-0157