Transforming into an agile organisation

Abstract

The twenty-first-century market has its challenges. The fourth industrial revolution brought digitali-zation what made the business environment ever-changing, the power of social media created better-knowledged customers, competition has never been harder. To survive enterprises must find a solu-tion so that they will enjoy facing a changing environment, and earn the best outcome, be able to understand the customer better and provide the fittest product. Agile software development caught the eyes of enterprise leaders as it had ideas to create a system that supports the issues but in a smaller frame. Thus, scaling agile at the enterprise level has been developed. Understanding, accept-ing something completely new, and work with its value can be very difficult. Even after so much afford when the new system starts performing, sustaining it can also be challenging. Enterprise has to be dedicated, motivated, and monitored at a constant pace.

The purpose of the thesis was to provide a brief explanation of how an organization can achieve agility. The first chapter of the thesis discussed fundaments of the Agile with its long and wide-spread history. The Organization agility is discussed in the third chapter, followed by the success story of three Agile organizations: PayPal, Bosch, and Spotify. The fourth chapter shares statistics of the market regarding Agile. And, in the end, the findings are concluded.

Literature has been used for theoretical knowledge. Agile is still new, and proper literature was dif-ficult to find.