“Agile, done well, enables vigorous innovation without sacrificing the efficiency and reliability essential to traditional operations.”
– Sarah Elk, co-author of Doing Agile Right
If we attempt to prepare a list of all the factors that are responsible for the success of an initiative or project, agility will undoubtedly top the list. It is a major contributing factor in a successful project, so much so that it is placed even before a project approach. In short, the more the agility, the better the result, and when we say better results, we mean better financial results, enhanced project metrics, improved customer satisfaction, superior strategy execution, and so on.
Agility means flexibility in thoughts and actions. Organizational leaders or the decision-makers are responsible for gauging their customer needs and demands, get into rigorous market research and then go ahead with change implementation in the nick of time. What is essential in this entire process is an undivided focus on effective iteration, unambiguous interaction, and fruitful collaboration. Agility plays the most vital role herein as the process involves effortless switching between priorities with an ever-changing market. Businesses cannot afford to stick with one scheme for years as it loses its viability with time.
To ensure that you are doing agile right, all you need to do is take the following steps –
Focus more on systematic agility instead of periodical agility
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations were known to be periodically agile, whereas now the business scenario has undergone a complete turn of events in the presence of this pandemic. Organizations need to breakdown, have unambiguous missions and visions, bring all their resources into the line accordingly, modify the working models, and likewise to ensure that it continues delivering systematic agility.
Maintain a perfect balance of principles and practices
Agility encompasses both speed and direction along with methodologies. To do agile right, an organization needs to use its agile practices in various innovative ways but in collaboration with its teams, business models, leadership ideologies as well as the organizational culture and values too.
Bring innovation and growth to the table
Most of the companies had not done justice to their agile implementations to date. It is vital to make work satisfying for all the employees, and so rigorous testing is required before implementing every approach. Besides, the right technology needs to be used in the right way too. By doing agile right, organizations can spike up their productivities to an extra 40%.
Outline the agile aspiration for your organization
Today the adoption rate of agile is being driven by change and the demand for its momentum. A whole lot of strategizing and advocacy goes into deciding the extent of agility one needs for an organization without disrupting anything. So, it is vital that an organization really commits to it and outline it well. As rightly said, agile is not just about the destination, but the journey itself. If you have faith in your agility and you are doing it right, then this fast-changing business world is almost a cakewalk for you.
All you need to do is pivot fast and align yourself with strategic primacies. Valuing speed will lead you to relevance and being relevant and dynamic is all that a business needs today.
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