Agility Readiness Assessment

Typical project types – Customer / User Requirements

Unclear and evolving Well understood and stable

requirements. requirements.

1 2 3 4 5

Typical project types – Technical complexity

Often involve new, unproven Usually utilize mature technology.

technology.

1 2 3 4 5

Team Members – Soft Skills

Good communication, assertive, Passive, secretive, prefer to avoid

comfortable with risk. risk.

1 2 3 4 5

Team Members – Technical Skills

T- Shaped skill sets. Specialists (limited breadth).

1 2 3 4 5

Customer - Availability

Willing and able to participate for Not willing or able to participate

duration of project. beyond initial requirements
creation.

1 2 3 4 5

Typical Team Size & Location

Small and local. Large and distributed.

1 2 3 4 5

Organization culture – Risk Appetite

Risk seeking. Risk averse.

1 2 3 4 5

Oversight and Processes

Skinny oversight mechanisms as Many mandatory Risk and Quality

required. gates.

1 2 3 4 5

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Leadership style and power distribution

Distributed Centralized

1 2 3 4 5

Executives / senior management agile awareness / attitude

Business leaders demonstrate Business leaders lack knowledge or

effective sponsorship for new ways interest in change.
of working

1 2 3 4 5

Middle management agile comfort

Willing to accept change and Managers not willing to accept

manage a transition to a new way added burden of managing
of working. transition to new way of working.

1 2 3 4 5

Employee motivation / interest

Employees are highly motivated Employees lack the motivation or

and interested in learning. interest to try new ideas.

1 2 3 4 5

Results
Sum of the Agility Readiness Assessment = ______________
A score of 35 or higher indicates an agile resistant culture that will require more proactive change
management for the transition to be successful.

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