{"id":10043,"date":"2020-03-09T12:30:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T04:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.ekipa.co\/insights\/%insights_types%\/the-dna-of-a-true-agile-organization\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T19:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:00:05","slug":"the-dna-of-a-true-agile-organisation","status":"publish","type":"insights_articles","link":"https:\/\/ekipa.co\/en-id\/insights\/blogs\/the-dna-of-a-true-agile-organisation\/","title":{"rendered":"The DNA of a true agile organisation"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lately, I see some companies move to true \u2018agile enterprises\u2019. I\u2019ve always been a firm believer of empowerment and self management. To become a <strong>true agile organisation<\/strong> (as opposed to an organisation that does some agile in some projects), we need those two ingredients. An enterprise needs to reinvent its DNA.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To reinvent the DNA, almost everything needs to \u2018go\u2019:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leadership<\/strong>: leaders need to \u2018let go\u2019. They need to let go of their power and their idea of status. They need to move their power to the people in their teams. And sometimes they even need to make themself redundant, finding a new role or leaving.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Culture<\/strong>: everyone needs to start thinking differently. People need to \u2018own\u2019 their work. They need to feel part of the team they work in and its mission. We need to let go of our focus on our own priorities and wallet.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Structure<\/strong>: we need to let go of the hierarchical <a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/blog\/collaboration\/what-is-organogram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">organogram<\/a>. Silos and functional departments are gone. And then we need to reinvent the new structure. In true agile organisations, this reinventing happens by the team with leaders as facilitators. Not top down. People reshape their teams, what the teams work on and their own roles in it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Performance systems<\/strong>: traditional kpi\u2019s need to go. Kpi\u2019s focus people on \u2018me\u2019. We want \u2018us\u2019. Work happens in teams, so performance, outcomes, impact has to be measured on the team level. And rewards have to be linked to that.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Goal setting<\/strong>: top down goal setting has to go. Leaders can give direction. But the teams decide what to do and how to get there. Leaders can facilitate this discussion. Teams that set their own goals, \u2018own\u2019 them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A true agile organisation<\/strong> also understands that all of the reinventing has to be done by the team. If we lay out structure, culture and performance systems top-down, we haven\u2019t accomplished all that Agile encompasses. I have seen very few companies that understand this. And it requires audacity. It requires top management that dares to let go all of the above. And then trust that their <a href=\"https:\/\/ekipa.co\/en-id\/about-us\/ekipa-reinvented\/\">people will reshape the DNA.<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I see some companies move to true \u2018agile enterprises\u2019. I\u2019ve always been a firm believer of empowerment and self management. To become a true agile organisation (as opposed to an organisation that does some agile in some projects), we need those two ingredients. An enterprise needs to reinvent its DNA. 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