Building the First Enterprise-Wide Agile Onboarding Framework
Building the First Enterprise-Wide Agile Onboarding Framework
No standardized way existed to bring a team onto Agile. Every team that adopted it built its own version of ceremonies, roles, and cadence, with no shared starting point across the organization. I was asked to build the organization's first enterprise-wide Agile onboarding framework: a structure any team could walk into on day one and come out the other side running Agile the same way every other team did.
This wasn't a rollout of an existing playbook. It was designing the playbook itself, then proving it worked on fifteen different teams.
- No existing template to build from, this was the organization's first framework of its kind
- Co-facilitating live workshops while coaching teams through applying the material in real time, not handing off a deck and leaving
- Fitting one consistent 4-day format to teams with different domains, sizes, and starting points, without diluting it into something too generic to be useful
Designed a 4-day workshop format from scratch, then spent a year in the room running it, team by team.
The actual workshop agenda and daily session plans used to run the rollout.
This became the organization's standard onboarding path, not a one-time initiative. It was the first framework of its kind here, and having fifteen teams run through the same structure meant, for the first time, a consistent starting point for what "running Agile" actually looked like across the organization.