Empowered Teams are at the Center of the Action Self-organizing teams staffed with adoption when they have business- people from all relevant functions are IT teams in which members share the heart of an agile organization. They, ownership of the work: the delivery of not their superiors, must be allowed new functions to customers. to decide what they can deliver—in weeks, not months—based on the A company’s technology foundation resources they have. also is critical to optimizing agile teams. Leading practitioners of These teams have the power to agile methodologies adopt DevOps make these decisions because they strategies that automatically release are backed by the business’s leaders. new features after the team develops That only happens when everyone them. DevOps empowers a company in the C-suite understands and to collect timely feedback from visibly demonstrates (through daily customers about new digital products. attendance at team meetings if need That feedback enables teams to quickly be) that agile adoption is necessary to improve the product, the customer the organization’s future. experience or both. Why do all CXOs need to be on board? Because only they can give teams the flexibility to define the scope of their work and prioritize goals based on the business value their products deliver to customers. Banks succeed with agile