Agile Transformation

Business agility
Agile maturity
Agile governance
Key Contacts

Agility is not just a competitive advantage, it is a necessity

The world is changing faster than ever before. New technologies, emerging trends, and evolving customer expectations are disrupting traditional business models. Companies that are slow to adapt to these changes risk falling behind their competitors. Agility is not just a competitive advantage; it is a necessity.

Agile is a highly collaborative, efficient, and adaptive approach for developing and delivering high quality products and services. It helps to thrive in complex environments, through innovation, efficient delivery and by responding to changes. It helps organisations to be flexible, more responsive, and nimbler in their operations to be able to deliver faster, better, and cheaper leading to improved customer satisfaction, and better employee engagement.

KPMG in India’s agile transformation solutions are designed to impart agility in the way of working at team level, programme level, portfolio level and at enterprise level for IT and non-IT sectors.

We employ a range of methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®), Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS), Scrum of Scrums, Scrum at Scale, as well as customised blended and hybrid models. Our Enterprise coaches, Agile coaches, and Scrum masters possess extensive practical knowledge in these methodologies, alongside other continuous improvement frameworks CMMI, PCMM, Lean Six Sigma, ITIL, Design Thinking, and Operational Excellence, which enhances our value delivery in agile engagements. Our consultants possess substantial domain experience and technical knowledge in machine learning, data science, and consumer market. This proficiency allows us to efficiently address your business problems.

Transform your business with our expert agile services

Business agility

Business agility is more important now than ever due to the need of organisations to be effective and efficient in responding to customer and market demands.

Our business agility solutions are designed to help organisations quickly adapt to changing market conditions, customer needs, and emerging technologies. We work with our clients to implement agile methodologies that enable them to respond quickly to new opportunities and challenges, improve productivity, and increase customer satisfaction. Our team of experienced agile coaches and consultants will guide you through the process of agile transformation, providing training, coaching, and equip your organisation to thrive in today's dynamic business landscape.

Agile transformation solutions

Agile transformations is the need of the hour to manage changing customer requirements and enhance time to market and quality. Many organisations struggle to manage the sheer complexity of large transformation programmes.

Our agile transformation services are designed to help organisations at every level of their business. Whether you are looking to improve the agility of your teams, programsme, or entire portfolio, we have the expertise and experience to help you succeed.

Our team of agile experts works closely with you to understand your unique business needs and goals, and to develop a customised transformation plan to help transform development and services lifecycle from traditional ways of working to agile ways of working using frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, Kaizen events, Xtreme Programing, SAFe®, LeSS, SPEED.

We provide training, coaching, and support to help your teams adopt agile methodologies, and we work with you to enable your programs and portfolio to be aligned with your business strategy.

With our agile transformation services, you can improve collaboration, increase productivity, and accelerate time-to-market. Whether you are looking to transform a single team or your entire organisation, we have the tools and expertise to help you succeed.

Project design

Identify business problems
Identify strategic themes
Define CTQs and acceptance criteria
Define measurement systems

Implementation

Strategizing and prioritizing projects
Data collection and analysis
Baseline assessment of the process
Assistance in deployment and evaluation
Infrastructure for continual improvement

Transfer/hand-off

Knowledge transfer
Handover to customer's implementation team

Phase 1- we lead, you follow

Identify improvement projects that we can undertake
Agree with stakeholders on the projects to be undertaken
Team formation With KPMG in India expert leading the execution
KPMG agile coaches act as scrum masters
Evaluation of projects by KPMG in India and organization.

Phase 2 - you lead, we review

Assist organization in diagnosis and identifying projects
Facilitate organization to agree with stakeholders on the next set of projects to be undertaken
Team formation with KPMG in India agile coach mentoring organization
Evaluation of results by KPMG in India and organization

Agile maturity and assessment

Maintaining agility of any system is a challenge. One critical aspect in this task is the measurement of various factors that drive agility. Agile being a fluid management concept, driven by self-evolving values and principles, makes this even more difficult.

Agile transformations is the need of the hour to manage changing customer requirements and enhance time to market and quality. Many organisations struggle to manage the sheer complexity of large transformation programmes.We offer a thorough assessment of agile practices across various facets of agility to help you improve your agile practices and processes. Our assessment framework is based on industry recognised agile frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe,. We assessment framework can be tailored to your specific business needs and goals.

Our assessment covers a wide range of parameters which are essential to build and agile culture in the organisation.

Envision

Provides insights into the readiness of product vision/roadmap

Early working software

Focus on dependency management and release readiness

Efficiency

Focus on ability of the team to overcome huddles and establish seamless delivery

Engineering quality

Focus on practices followed to build the product

Empowerment

Focus in team maturity and self-organisation

Embracing changes

Provides insights into the readiness of the product vision/roadmap

Construct

Community of practices
Product quality

Ceremonies

Backlog grooming
sprint planning
Daily scrum
Sprint review/demo
Sprint retrospective

Culture

Timebox
Skillset
Empowerment
Efficiency
Impediments

We work closely with your team to understand your current processes and practices. Agility assessment involves interviews, surveys, GEMBA and observation sessions to assess the current levels of agile maturity. Our assessment provides you with a detailed report that outlines our findings and recommendations, along with a roadmap for implementing the recommended changes.

With our agile practices assessment, you can gain valuable insights into your current processes and identify opportunities for improvement. Our team of agile experts has years of experience in helping organisations of all sizes and across various industries to improve their agile practices and processes. Whether you're just starting your agile journey or looking to optimise your existing processes, our assessment can help you achieve your goals and accelerate your success.

Agile competency assessment

Success of agile transformation relies heavily on the competency of the agile teams. We offer a thorough Agile Team Competency Assessment that is designed to help you identify gaps in your team's skills and knowledge and create a customised competency development plan to build the right skills to successfully drive the agile transformation initiatives.

Our competency assessment framework is based on industry-standard agile practices and covers a range of competencies, including agile mindset, agile frameworks and methodologies, planning, estimation, development, testing, agile team collaboration and communication, and agile leadership. Our team of agile experts have extensive experience in helping organisations of all sizes and across various industries to improve competencies of agile teams.

Agile governance and talent extension solutions

Organisations, who already have agile programmes running in their portfolios/programmes would require a helping hand in achieving certain specific objectives. KPMG in India offers its Agile Governance Solutions in this context. We have three specific services in this segment.

Agile governance as a service

In this approach, we help a client organisation to design and develop an agile ecosystem for their specific portfolios/programmes/projects. KPMG in India agile leads will lead these activities through their active involvement in the client implementation machinery.

Agile programme management advisory

KPMG in India’s agile leads will deliver programme level and project level agile management advisory in pre-existing or forthcoming agile ecosystems in client organisations.

Agile talent extension model

Our enterprise agile coaches, agile coaches and scrum masters are deployed at client side and work as part of the client team for handling specific agile assignments in the client organisation through a loan staff engagement model.

Agile governance - as a service

Design and development of an agile ecosystem in the client environment. KPMG in India agile leaders will lead these activities through their active involvement in the client implementation machinery. Often the governance lead will be part of the client team over a loan staff model.

Enter
Engage
Assess

Scrum master services

Active scrum teams in a client location can utilize the expertise of KPMG in India scrum masters through loan staff engagements.

Design
Deploy
Exit

Agile Program Management Advisory

KPMG's agile leads will deliver program level and project level agile management advisory in pre-existing or forthcoming Agile ecosystems in client organizations.

Agile training and certifications solutions

We offer a wide range of agile training and certifications solutions that are designed to help individuals and organisations improve their agile knowledge and skills and accelerate their agile transformations.

Our training solutions cover a range of agile methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and SAFe, and are delivered by our team of experienced agile coaches and trainers. In addition to our training solutions, we also offer industry recognised agile certifications. We offer both in-person and virtual training programmes, customised to meet your specific needs and goals.