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The requirements that modern companies have to meet evolve with great speed and therefore the way teams and departments work need to be constantly re-evaluated. A currently set and tested way of doing things may very likely be a thing of the past next year. It's vital for business managers to identify the requirement of change as quickly as possible, to enable business growth and avoid wasting resources on no longer effective actions.
Here is where the concept of Agile Business comes in. An Agile approach means staying flexible in the way things are being done, leaving policies open and ready for change. Often times there is an outside force within an organization, aiming to perform or help out in the transition from traditional to Agile.
With an objective take on the goals that are meant to be met and a dedicated set of skills to facilitate the change - one person – the “Change Manager” can indeed manage to bring a change of company policy, team mindset and even Standard Operating Procedures to meet the Agile requirements.
There are three distinct stages of a change process:
Out of the 3, the task of making sure the change sticks is likely the hardest and most important. Short-lasted adjustments are easy, the trick is in making them permanent.
There is one more important aspect of this. Making the team and organizational policies Agile is - unfortunately - not enough. The product / service that the organization delivers needs to be just as responsive to frequent changes as the team. Teams need to keep in mind that the Agile way, in which they run the processes need to go in line with the technical way the product is made.
So not only does your process require to be flexible, but the software architecture or product built also have to have adjustable and responsive components. So that when a change comes round, you will be ready to embrace it, both in the teamwork approach and in the techs-specs available. Your product will have to be easily changeable.
An interesting research has been conduced on this very subject - Best Practices For Agile-Plus-Architecture - Enterprises Need Sustainable Business Agility, Not Just Agile Development, proving the value of he approach and examining the very details of making it work.
An approach that invites keeping score of all the changes to both the team policy and the product / service development is easily managed on a visual board. The main advantage of utilizing it for Change Management is the ability to share the progress, findings and new assignments with an entire team as they happen. Commenting and collaborating on the ongoing tasks and changes is just as easy. Try now for free.
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