Remodelling Business Agility with Agile Way

 

We have seen how agile has done wonders for software development and also mentioned that it can be used for other industries to get benefits, especially focusing on an automobile, finance, and banking. But if we observe in detail we will obtain that it can be applied in every field providing immense advantages you can imagine. For example, let’s see how agile help in remodelling a house.

Consider you are remodelling your kitchen by knocking walls, rerouting electric and plumbing connections, replacing appliances and cabinets, new lighting fixtures, replacing pantry cabinets, and repainting a complete area. This task becomes challenging as your wife is the main stakeholder who changes her design ideas while proceeding, there are multiple outside contractors involved, and manage cost and time at a reasonable level.

To achieve this by using agile you can proceed with the below steps to obtain maximum benefits and overcome the challenges.

Select Suitable Contractor

 By listing out all the contractors and then their advantages and disadvantages select the most suitable contractor as per your need and finalize them. While doing so don’t go with the riskiest option or minimum risk options that don’t provide any required benefit. But find the average of all where there is a valid and bearable risk with benefits.

Provide Buffer Time for Changes

Before going for the final selection consider all the available options and still be ready to change even the final selection from your wife before acting on it. This will satisfy your stakeholder which is your wife when she got an opportunity to make a selection and even change it before applying it. Like, provide time for a wife to select and change the selection of countertop material before applying it in the kitchen.

While doing so and starting from the small project you can achieve success within time and reasonable and decided cost. This is a small example of how agile thinking and going one step at a time will help you bring success to any work.

The agile principles and practices can be applied to some extent in this example creating trust, relationships, productivity, and risk management.

Now let’s move towards the important points to be considered while going with an agile way for any business agility.

The main two difficulties while transforming to agile any organization faces are as below with their sub-categories to be improved or changed as per the agile way.

Structural

·        Decision Rights

·        Funding Model

·        Process Gates

·        Reporting Lines

Ways of Working

o   Workforce

·       Culture

·       Leadership

·       Skills

·       Performance Management

·       Staffing

o   Remodel Technology

·       Tools

·       Data

·       Collaboration

·       Analytics

Aspects to Consider while Transforming to Agile Way

Organizational Structure

Understand what your organizational structure is and how much of it is working traditionally. The structure is an important aspect of agile transformation as agile cannot work with the traditional way of thinking. In agile thinking, no role is higher or lower but everyone is important in the success of the project, and the organization is adapted. To do so parallel structure of the organization or team is required. Where every, decision, funding rights, reporting, and process ownership is assigned and everyone has a sense of accountability for their role and decisions.

Up-gradation of Technology

Whatever the industry is, every organization uses one or other type of technology to make their work easy. With changing times up-gradation of technology is necessary. The up-gradation of technology involves changes in two main aspects that are up-gradation of the workforce and the up-gradation of technical tools and analytics. Once new suitable cost-efficient tools are up-graded in an organization then it requires an equally capable and skilled workforce. Even there are some skills an employee can acquire to obtain benefits even without tools. To implement this so the organization must organize training, sessions, and presentation to upgrade its workforce. An organization must also be always aware of the market's latest technology to be in the race.

Prioritization

Going from one system to another system has lots of tasks to complete but trying to complete them all in one go is never the wise thing to do. Agile always support going with listing the task and prioritizing them as this helps in bringing the benefits in the required time and also completes every necessary change. Prioritization helps not only during agile transformation but also throughout the process of a project. At first, we must accept that it is not possible to complete everything at once, so we must set priorities. Once the list is done then with proper discussion and understanding resetting of the list should be completed and act up on it.

Agile is not only a system but a regular way of working which will give the best processes to obtain advantages from a task and complete the project management to obtain required benefits. This quality of agile makes it useful for every organization despite its industry.

About Advance Agility

We, at Advance Agility, are the new-age Agile Coaching, Consulting and IT services company. We enable end-to-end Digital Transformation. Agile execution is integral to our being. We are doing SAFe implementation with small, medium and large organization across the globe. Our vision is to be the leading Agile execution player globally. To keep adding value at every process stage. We are on a mission to empower our clients, move from concept to cash in the shortest sustainable lead time by adopting human centric approach to business agility. Embracing the change is in our DNA. Things that keep us apart are Quicker and Seamless execution with End-to-end gamut of services. Our Global presence and Stellar Track Record give us an edge over our competitor.

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