Defining the Vision and Goal for Successful Agile Transformation

In any Agile transformation, having a clear vision is essential to guide the team and ensure alignment across all levels. Why is vision important? Vision provides direction, while well-defined goals offer measurable steps toward achieving that future state. Without a shared understanding of where you’re headed, it becomes harder to make decisions and drive meaningful change. Leaders play a crucial role in shaping this vision, helping teams to focus and align their efforts. Whether you’re leading a small team or a large-scale transformation, defining your vision and goals is the first step toward ensuring long-term success and organizational impact.

One of the oNabu advisors and Scrum Master of our team Umut Arısoy created implementable advice for Vision and Goal of Your Transformation.

What is it?

Try to imagine the future state of your working ecosystem on your own. (We know that might be hard in the beginning…)

Facilitate a visioning session with your stakeholders to ensure that you’re on the same page.

Define short and long term goals (A north star metric may be helpful).

Why is it important ?

The basic differentiator of a Leader is having a clear vision about the future state of a context. Since you will be the person to drive or to guide this change, having a vision or at least knowing about the vision would make things easier for you and for the people in your charge. It would be much easier to say “No” to requests that are nonsense or not contributing to your vision or goals once you have a picture for the future state. Bare in mind that goals can change whereas changing the vision means pivoting from your starting point and may point you to solving another question

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