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“Agility is no longer just an interesting idea to chat about while continuing to do business as usual.” - Michael Hugos, CIO Magazine

Through an article out this week, Cisco shows that software agility can, in fact, scale to organizational agility.

This CIO Magazine blog post from Michael Hugos explores the way Cisco is breaking its internal structure into self-managing Scrums for organizational agility.

Says Hugo, “Now instead of a small group of executives telling everybody else what to do, people have authority to figure out for themselves what to do… People are motivated to coordinate and cooperate with each other by a financial incentive system that rewards them for their common successes instead of rewarding each manager for their individual successes (easy to see how that could be called socialist if you wanted to dismiss the idea).”

This bold move could certainly be called the organization of the future.

Further Reading:

• Top 10 Characteristics of an Agile Organization
• Scaling Lean and Agile Development – Ask Bas and Craig
• More Than One Way to Roll-Out Agile