From the course: Enterprise Agile: Changing Your Culture

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Start by understanding your organizational culture

Start by understanding your organizational culture

From the course: Enterprise Agile: Changing Your Culture

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Start by understanding your organizational culture

- Have you ever started working in an organization and was told that "This is how we do things here?" Maybe you made a mistake and someone said, "This is not how we work." Now, imagine if you responded, "Well, maybe we should change how we do things." Do you think that would be well received? In many organizations, that might even be seen as jarring, or even hostile. That's what makes organizational culture very difficult to change. In an organization, people have a success pattern. New people are taught these things and told this is the right way to do things. Their culture is seen as correct, and even the very core of what makes the organization unique. The managers, business analysts and project managers have all accepted that these practices are the way to succeed in this organization. The challenge is, when everyone in an organization accepts something as correct, it's very difficult to change. So if this accepted…

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