Susan Strain

Susan Strain
Susan Strain is an Agile Transformation Coach who works with clients implementing Agile practices that span the enterprise. She coaches and trains Agile principles and methodologies, including Enterprise Business Agility Strategy, Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe®. She has experience with clients in a wide variety of industries including banking, financial, government, hospitality, insurance, investments, manufacturing, military, publishing, and retail. Over the course of her career, she has been a soldier, computer nerd (she went to Steve Jobs house to see his first Lisa computer!), journalist, and Agile coach.

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Free ICON Maturity Assessment Tool for your SAFe® Transformation

Posted by Susan Strain on December 23, 2021

Let’s consider a common request from Agile Transformation teams and PMO offices: Have you assessed the Agile maturity of your teams?

This seems like a reasonable ask—after all, the teams are the ones responsible for creating the shippable software every two weeks. But do team-based metrics tell the whole story?

Now consider this: Is it possible for teams (even high performing teamsto be limited by the Agility of their executives, stakeholders, managers, and shared services?

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Topics: SAFe®