The Virginia-Satir change curve (shown in graph) illustrates how change initiatives cause organizations to go through an intense period of resistance and chaos and how these periods cause a drop in the performance of organizations.

The danger comes when this period of resistance and chaos is prolonged because the organization failed to discover (before the transition) that it does not possess the necessary traits and characteristics to successfully embrace the agile practices they decided to adopt. This is why conducting a pre-adoption assessment is crucial.

From a set of 40 known agile practices, Dr. Agile uses over 300 different assessment indicators to determine which practices are most suitable for your organization to adopt right away. As for the rest of the practices, Dr. Agile identifies the missing or weak organizational characteristics preventing the successful adoption of the agile practices.