Being the first to your competitors is the goal of any organization. We have ideas, projects and initiatives that could lead us to that goal. However, when trying to implement them, they often do not materialize or, when we do, someone else has already done it in record time. Why does this happen? The answer is simple: you need to implement Business Agility.
Business Agility: Key to Efficient Teams
Business agility is an organization’s ability and willingness to adapt and create change for the benefit of customers. It involves a set of capabilities, behaviors, and working methods that give the business freedom, flexibility, and resilience to meet its objectives and face current challenges, such as:
> Develop products and services aligned with customer needs.
> Innovate with technology that offers a differentiator in productivity and operational excellence.
> Maintain a unique and efficient experience with customers.
> Adapt to changes in the market.
> Adopt new work schemes, such as teleworking.
> To form functional work teams.
> Do it all quickly.
Business Agility: Path to Seeing Tangible Results in Companies
The world changes rapidly and taking years to execute a project, such as one focused on generative AI, can result in the technology having changed when it is finally launched, causing it to miss its goal. Business agility helps in this regard.
Business agility is based on managing projects through iterative and incremental deliveries. Instead of waiting to have the product fully functional, they focus on small targets that are built and tested simultaneously.
Companies such as Spotify and Netflix develop their projects with Minimum Viable Products (MVPs), which are prototypes with minimal functions to present them to customers and check their interest. They use analytics, listen to customers and launch continuously, all under the agile methodology.
How to Implement Business Agility?
There are several frameworks and Scrum is one of the most prominent for business agility. Scrum is made up of a set of values, principles, and practices that teams follow to develop a product or service based on continuous learning and factor adjustment. This involves developing the ability to launch, learn, adjust, and transform.
Scrum promotes self-managed teams and small launches of an entire project in an environment of business agility. You work in Sprints, where you determine short-term goals to complete a task. However, the most important thing about Scrum and business agility is not only the implementation at the cultural or people level, but also having tools that allow its control, execution and monitoring.
Business Agility: Beyond Software Development
Business agility should not be confused only with software development. Business agility applies to:
> Sales
> Marketing
> Production
> Customer service
> Innovative technology
> System Implementation
> Internal processes
Each of these areas has projects and objectives, so it is imperative to have tools that ensure the execution of agile frameworks and methodologies.
Tools for Business Agility
An essential tool is Atlassian, which allows you to manage all projects and teams from one place. Among its products, Jira stands out for:
> Follow-up of products and incidents for software development.
> Planning and launching marketing campaigns.
> IT request management and monitoring.
> Creating creative flows for design.
> Creation of custom processes for operations.
Jira offers:
> Planning and organization of tasks.
> Alignment of work with objectives.
> Progress tracking.
> Optimization of work with relevant data.
> Assignment of work according to the impact on the company.
> Features to automate repetitive tasks.
> Integration with existing tools in the company.
In another article, we delve into Jira, an essential tool to boost business agility in organizations. And in that sense, achieve their objectives, document their projects, measure the process, take lessons learned, as well as continuously improve iterations and integration in their work teams
See You in the Cloud!
As an Atlassian Platinum Enterprise Partner, Itera has certified specialists whose focus is on the adoption of collaborative management in Jira, cloud service architecture, and best practices that drive business agility.
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