Challenges and Success Factors for Large-Scale Agile Transformations: A Systematic Literature Review.

Why this matters here

Dikert, Paasivaara, and Lassenius review challenges and success factors in large-scale agile transformations, documenting how adoption often fails when practices are adopted without the conditions that make them work. Coupling uses that literature for the failure mode in which “be agile” becomes slogan drift—skipping reflection, removing safeguards, or speeding up without restoring ownership clarity. The book’s operational question is whether simplification still keeps consequence visibility and learning loops intact, or only makes the organization feel lighter while adaptation weakens.