To further enhance responsiveness and competitive advantage in a VUCA (Volatile,
Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) world , organisations in the last
decade have embarked on agile transformations (See Appendix B), a way of working
that leverages cross-disciplinary self-organising teams. Giving the shift to self￾organising teams, psychological safety as a group level phenomenon, probably
becomes even more important for quality interactions and effective collaboration
among team members – especially given teams in a knowledge economy now face a
daunting expansion of knowledge, probably too much for one person to keep up with

This project proposal therefore seeks to undergo a study to show the correlation
between psychological safety and a successful agile transformation. Given Agile as a
subject and concept for organisations is still relatively new (Thorgren and Caiman,
2019), this study seeks to contribute to the growing body of knowledge for
organisations, Agile consultants and coaches, as a better understanding of this
correlation and the factors at play, may hopefully improve the chances of success for
agile transformations.