Tips To Take Agile Productivity To Higher Level

 

We know that agile provides a higher level of productivity along with quality to the product. But what if this productivity can be further improved? Right it will give the added benefit to the organization. By improving the efficiency of an agile team, an agile organization can help an organization in achieving agility.

Productivity can be measured with the ability to provide dedicated time to a specific work, completing them with quality and completing the day with quality output.

To have productivity it is necessary to have methods to place time management, prioritizing, tracking tasks, and involvement of employees. This all methods are introduced in agile and also implemented by teams with proper involvement.

But even in agile organizations, some teams are agile but are not able to follow all the artifacts, understand the value and principles, or are confused due to lack of guidance hence resulting in not obtaining all the benefits agile provides. This leads to decreased productivity within a team or person. After improving and providing proper guidance to teams, these reasons can be cut out from decreased productivity. But still, there are some thieves of productivity in organizations who create obstacles in the implementation of agile within team members even without their observation some of it reasons are mentioned below.

Poor Health Habits

Every person has one or two bad health habits, but no one is perfect. If your health habit is leading you to decrease productivity, it is not only you who is affected. Sacrificing health and letting energy run will cause an effect on your work.

Constantly saying ‘Yes’

It is hard for many to say no to others even if it puts them in a critical situation. We have seen many individuals who have a habit of saying yes constantly which leads them to do this for others while their priority work is kept aside.

Bringing Life Chaos to Work

Bringing life’s chaos to work in form of tension leads individuals to avoid putting their complete focus on work. Having chaos going on in life does not let an individual do their work with 100% involvement and different thinking is going on in the back of the mind leading to lots of mistakes and less quality work along with decreased productivity even with agile practices.

No Support

When you are surrounded by negative energy or wrong people it will put you in problems instead of helping you to solve problems, so it is necessary to understand who we are friends with and what types of people are we surrounded with, and if it's leading us to the good steps in our life or not.

By understanding and improving the above reason and also adding some below tips you can achieve more productivity in agile teams.

Focus on One Task at a Time

We have discussed this point in many other benefits like improving efficiency and achieving agility. When we try to accomplish many things at a time it gets jumbled and creates confusion resulting in time waste and putting more effort to complete them. Whereas, when we do one task at a time avoiding distraction we can put our complete focus on it and complete it with less time putting our overall dedication. While doing one thing at a time be sure about the final result you want to reach and every task and step is towards achieving it.

Set Smaller Objectives

Instead of going with larger objectives that require many outlets and a longer time to complete it is good to plan small objectives throughout the day which gives a feeling of accomplishment and takes you to step by step closer to a goal which is also one important practice in agile.

Focus on Bigger Task First

Focusing on the biggest task first will helps you stay more focused on work at the start. Be sure to dedicate your most alert and energized time to the bigger tasks which consume more time and effort than smaller ones. As we have always seen in agile it is easy to complete a smaller and shorter task when you feel like losing your energy and focus so better keep them for later.

Take Break Regularly

When you work continuously without break it creates fatigue and leads to losing focus harming overall productivity. Continuing work without break results in losing motivation for making progress. Plan short breaks of at least five to ten minutes in your daily working schedule this will help you recharge yourself, and get you ready for the upcoming task by clearing your mind.

Follow Obtaining Mastery

Try to gain mastery over every work you perform. This will help you in habit of putting your best into every task you perform. This will also help you in learning to adapt to be the best version of yourself.

Following these easy tips and understanding what’s pulling you behind and improving those aspects will lead to increasing your productivity. Also applying it to your agile teams can even improve their productivity.

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