Scaling Agile Maturity goes beyond measuring how a single team applies Agile—it evaluates how agility is orchestrated across value streams, portfolios, leadership layers, and organizational structures. It looks at dimensions such as leadership alignment, value stream management, governance, technical architecture, and cultural mindset shifts to uncover where scale is helping—or silently hurting—delivery. Unlike standard Agile maturity assessments, which focus mainly on team practices, scaling maturity highlights cross-team coordination, dependency management, strategy execution, and enterprise-level change enablement. The outcome is a clear, evidence-based roadmap that reduces systemic bottlenecks, strengthens leadership alignment, and creates the conditions for faster, predictable, and value-driven delivery at scale.
Our Maturity Assessments are not limited to tools; they draw on interviews, discussions, and real-world observations, combined with our expertise, to reveal your true Agile maturity and chart a clear, tailored ‘To-Be’ state for your organization.
What Makes It Different
Here are differentiating points (why scaling maturity is a different offering / need versus regular Agile maturity):
- It evaluates multi-team, cross-team, and portfolio-level coordination, not just individual Agile teams.
- Focus on value streams and alignment of business strategy with execution at scale, not just backlog, sprints, retrospectives.
- Deals with technical and non-technical dependencies: architecture, integration, compliance, security, cross-team communication.
- Emphasis on governance mechanisms that can scale: decision rights, funding, measurement, risk management at program/portfolio level.
- More focus on leadership behavior, culture across layers, not just team mindset.
- Requires more maturity in tooling & shared infrastructure: e.g., shared CI/CD platforms, release trains, DevOps at scale.
- Change management across many stakeholders, more complex org structure, often dispersed/distributed teams, and dealing with legacy processes.
Outcomes You Can Expect
When you do a proper assessment across those dimensions, these are the kinds of outcomes organizations reliably see / should expect:
- Clear map of scaling weaknesses & risks — e.g. bottlenecks in cross-team coordination, delayed dependencies, misaligned backlog prioritization.
- Prioritized roadmap for scaling improvements — which value streams to improve first, what governance changes to implement, where to invest in architecture or tooling, etc.
- Improved time to market at scale — faster program increments/releases, less delay due to dependencies.
- Better predictability and alignment — leadership & teams operate with shared vision, better portfolio roadmap visibility.
- Reduced duplication & waste — shared platforms, reuse, less rework, fewer integration issues.
- Enhanced technical quality & stability — architecture coherence, test automation at scale, continuous delivery across multiple streams.
- Stronger culture of collaboration & continuous improvement — improved trust, shared retrospectives, feedback loops at higher levels, enabling faster adaptation.
- Metrics / reporting that connect to business outcomes — e.g. customer feedback, ROI, quality metrics, delivery metrics, dependencies resolved, customer satisfaction.