Its about Decentralized Decision Making
Leadership will need to be comfortable with decentralizing tactical decisions that the Agile team needs to make frequently or within a tight time-frame.
This allows the Agile team to self-manage but within agreed tolerances.
Why Setting Boundaries is essential for Agile Governance
Particularly true for cost and time
When tolerances are in danger of being exceeded, Agile product delivery frameworks recommended de-scoping the lower priority items.
Timeboxing is paramount in Agile, within which a valuable product must be provided to the client base.
Yet, Agile product delivery and the associated governance model must accept that de-scoping may occur to respect the time box.
Importance of Decentralized Decision making
To openly communicate and engage in constructive debate to quickly resolve issues and challenges.
At the end of the ceremony or meeting, all team members collectively and unanimously commit to the decisions being made regardless of where their vote had been.
This mindset is extremely advantageous and aligns the entire team towards shared outcomes.
Delivers Goodwill and Trust:
a clear understanding of roles,
Set acceptable threshold and tolerance levels for decentralized decisions.
Light and simple governance structure
Agile team themselves who typically decide on the metrics they must leverage to self-monitor their team's progress.
Such metrics are easy to measure based on actual performance and transparent to all.
Let's be clear that the usual principles of assurance will not be compromised.
However, the assessment relies more on observation and engagement, rather than commerce and reports and delayed lengthy presentations.
Some decision remain centralized
strategic decisions that span in a longer time-frame and have a larger organization wide impact.
organizations' leadership needs to make, for rare decisions that require more detailed and deeper analysis.