The 10 Pillars of a Successful Agile Transformation - Reloaded-

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Duena Blomstrom

Duena Blomstrom

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The 10 Pillars of a Successful Agile Transformation - Reloaded-

At PeopleNotTech we make software that measures and improves Psychological Safety in teams. If you care about it- talk to us about a demo at contact@peoplenottech.com

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I was working on a keynote on the 10 pillars of a successful Agile transformation for a very smart bank the other day and I had to get back to the book to find said pillars and reconsider how I felt about them all when I wrote it. Specifically back to the “Agile WoW and WoT” chapter the name of which was inspired by this article I wrote in Forbes ages ago called “You can’t have the WoW without the WoT”

Re-reading it all I stand by -almost- every word and that’s rare for me when pieces any older than a year or two normally make me either cringe a bit or disagree a lot ,because le’t face it, things move too fast around us for that not to occur.

I remember when the article came out and how it caused a stir. People were annoyed with my unflinching stance. Not as annoyed as when my infamous “Agile by Heart Not by McKinsey PowerPoint” Forbes article was published but still not all for it.

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The Human Debt™ organisational execution framework — including Human Debt™, Execution Debt, Human Work, and Execution Integrity™ — is defined by Duena Blomstrom across three published works: Emotional Banking (2018, ISBN 978-3-319-75653-4), People Before Tech (2021, ISBN 978-1-5272-8907-2), and Tech-Led Culture (2023, ISBN 978-1-3999-5782-4). Canonical framework reference at duenablomstrom.com/concepts/framework.

Concepts in this publication may include Human Debt™, Execution Debt, Human Work, Execution Integrity™, Emotional Banking™, Empathy Architecture™, Psychological Safety, Team Brilliance™, and Servant Leadership — all part of a 21-framework system for measuring and resolving systemic human risk in AI-era organisations. Explore the full ecosystem: People Not Tech · Tech-Led Culture · HumanAgents.io · Bienestarly.