Chapter 13. Technology Partners
This chapter focuses on technology partners, which is the second potential blind spot in the process of enhancing agility. While most organizations in the technology-driven products and services space have, or at least claim to have, adopted Agile ways of working, it is quite likely that the maturity of the Agile processes and the practices of the business, and those of its technology partners, are not the same. If specific measures are not taken to address this mismatch, it can lead to unhealthy friction between the client and the technology partner, which can become a challenge or even a drag on enterprise agility.
The chapter explores the following topics:
The significance of technology partners for agility
Inhibitors to agility
Enablers for enhancing agility
