David Summerton Business Consulting
Agile Principles On A Post-it Note Let’s keep things nice and simple – simple is good, it stays in the memory, cannot easily be forgotten, no excuses for not following it, can be publicised in many different forms around the organisation and it fits neatly into a succinct and effective social media message. Brilliant! Organisations …
What Are Agile Principles And How Can I Use Them? Agile is characterised by the following: Customer collaboration: taking active steps to systematically find out, and meet, customer needs Changing requirements: continually looking for the next “big thing” in the market and not relying o what you are making/the service you are providing now! Cross …
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How To Use Agile In Everyday Management There is never enough time to do it all: even managers that look like they are totally in control of what is going on require discipline and a very clear focus for getting things done. Too much work and not enough time! At the individual levels we must …
How Organisations Use Agile For Business Development Make Agile work for you and your organisation/department by developing the following: Customer collaboration: really find out what the customer wants and what they consider to be important Changing requirements: be aware of what the market is telling you and what the next big issue will be so …
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How To Be An Agile Manager In 5 Easy Steps Use peripheral vision. Make it your business to actively monitor trends and innovations and make sure that once you have done this you positively anticipate what is new and plan to use this. Encourage dissent. Always encourage debate and be prepared to have your assumptions …
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What Makes For Agile Management? We all want an organisation, and a personal management style, that is responsive, flexible and able to deal with the many different business challenges that will come our way. We need to have an AGILE management approach. So what makes up an Agile Management philosophy? Having responsibility for staff – …
7 Ways To Develop An Agile Organisation Some businesses, some departments are well just a little too slow to deal with the complexities of the modern business world and are steadily getting left behind. Sooner or later they are so far off the pace that either radical surgery is needed or they just cease to …
