Are you confident all your teams are delivering on your corporate strategy? Shortly after deciding to go “All in on Agile” across the entire Vistaprint business unit, we began experimenting with an enterprise-wide Agile release planning tool we call the Enterprise Visibility Room. It is forcing us to finally confront our addiction to working on every good idea we think we’ve ever had, all at the same time. It motivates us to say no, not yet, and to focus intently on our highest value ideas. Through that intense focus, we align our collective efforts to the core of our strategy, balance our supply and demand and increase the flow of value to our customers.
The Enterprise Visibility Room centers on a single, prioritized, enterprise backlog of strategic outcomes. It requires clear descriptions of value for each and every outcome. It visualizes all teams necessary to deliver that value and where each team is actively working. Five ceremonies embody the formal operation of the Room: prioritization, planning, scrum of scrums stand-ups, demonstrations, and retrospectives, all occurring throughout a quarterly cycle.
Peak inside the journey we have taken, hear the lessons learned, the missteps, and unexpected discoveries. Gather insights into which factors enabled us to take this major step in our enterprise Agile transformation, and imagine what an idea like this could do for your organization.
