Agility Appropriateness Assessment

Author(s): Matt Burton, Terra Aartsen

IT departments that face uncertainty in terms of the amount and nature of funding and projects need to be flexible in their resourcing (e.g. equipment capacity, staffing). This flexibility comes at a price, so organizations need to be careful not to overinvest in contingencies they don’t need. The Agility Appropriateness Assessment will determine your organization’s current state and where it should be based on the demand variability of your environment. Specifically, it will help you:

  • Evaluate the project demand variability of your environment.
  • Appraise the current level of resource agility.
  • Understand how to correct misalignment.

Multiple scenarios and sensitivity analysis can be run through the questionnaire simply by modifying previous answers.