In our last capsule we have check two themes, a Path and the first step of it, in order to build Business Agility, and a “Future State Model of Business Agility”.

Now, in this capsule, we will continue with the first component “Tactical and Strategic Alignment”, flying over an example of a retail company that builds Business Agility.

At this future state model, we have a retail company that has decide to build business agility.

It has three concentric circles; at the exterior circle, we find the team agility level and the client.

At this example we have three stream values; to create a product/service that cross all the organization:

One is focused on Kanban, to operate services at regional level.

The second at the center is a stream value dedicated to build and a launch a product at the market, we are using Scrum & XP practices at the team level to deliver it to the client.

The third service is an electronic service, we are developing an app for the medium business so they can buy directly their products at our market place, we are focused on delivering premium services, for this we are using a Kanban discovery approach, a Kanban delivery and a Scrum to build what does not exist.

Each service is in a pink circle where lives the product/service tactic, we have 3 that govern a delivery term.

Each tactic is aligned to its corresponding strategy. So, they are aligned to the agile product delivery level of the company.

All these strategies are connected to the agile discovery level and a general tactic level, where we find an integration approach guided by  programs and a portfolio level which is connected to the general strategy of the company, the vision or massive transformation purpose.

In order to make an agile alignment between vision, strategy, tactics, an a operational level, we are using agile product management to enable the agile business from the strategy to the operational level and vice versa.

Remember as we advance on building an agile business, we are building capabilities as culture, structure and government so we have to manage the demand and classify all of these guided by a LACE.

That’s all for now, in the next capsule we will continue at this first step reviewing an approach of the current state assessment and a prioritization of the initiatives.