Transforming Enterprise Tension into Strategic Alignment

Agile transformations often fail not because of frameworks or tools, but because of people, power shifts, and communication breakdowns. Conflicts at the organizational level can slow delivery, damage trust, and create competing priorities between departments.

In this session, we will explore how Agile practitioners can navigate these tensions effectively, influence alignment, and help organizations reduce chaos while increasing collaboration and value delivery.

Why Enterprise-Level Conflict Needs a Different Approach

Organizational conflict is rarely loud or visible. It shows up subtly in:

• Competing team priorities

• Funding disagreements and portfolio bottlenecks

• Territorial behaviors rooted in old silos

• Misaligned expectations between business and IT

• Resistance to new Agile processes

Research from MIT Sloan Management Review points out that when teams are measured differently, friction is inevitable.

Agilists who excel at systems thinking, stakeholder communication, and change influence can transform conflict into progress.

Common Sources of Organizational Friction

Here are three conflict types you’ll likely face:

Understanding the root cause helps determine whether the solution requires policy change, process redesign, or behavior coaching.

Strategies for Resolving Conflict at Scale

1. Align Goals Through Value Mapping

Using tools like OKRs or Portfolio Kanban, you help leaders visualize shared outcomes.
Reference, Atlassian OKR Guides. 

2. Build Psychological Safety Between Departments

Teams must be able to challenge decisions respectfully.
Google’s Project Aristotle research highlights how psychological safety builds high performance.

3. Facilitate Open Dialogue with Neutrality

Bring transparency to decisions through structured conversations such as:

• Lean Coffee

• Stakeholder Canvas

• A3 Problem Solving

4. Help Leaders See the System, Not the Symptoms

Introducing business agility frameworks such as the Business Agility Institute improves strategic visibility.

The goal is not to eliminate conflict entirely but to transform it into healthy friction that drives innovation.

What You Will Learn in This Event

• Enterprise-ready conflict mediation techniques
• How to influence without formal authority
• Tools for cross-functional dependency resolution
• Skills for protecting teams from political disruption
• Ways to keep decisions anchored in customer and value focus

This is not “textbook Agile.” This is real-world organizational navigation.

Who Should Attend

• Scrum Masters expanding into organizational coaching

• Program and Portfolio leaders

• Change agents working across multiple departments

• Future Agile Coaches who want executive influence experience

Enterprise conflict can feel messy, political, and overwhelming. With the right mindset and tools, you can turn misalignment into momentum.

Register today.

Bring your most challenging organizational story.
Let’s solve the “people problems” that truly make or break transformation.