Learn the best solution for the scenario you are in and achieve the real benefits of being agile
By Antonio Costa Having more performance, more productivity and being more agile is one of the main goals of many people today, in any area, isn’t it? You know that you need to work differently, you want to have deliveries that really serve the customer and achieve the organization’s goals in the best possible way… But the point is: in order to get there, do you need consulting support? Do I need to train my team, and in which trainings? How do I put together this puzzle between training, consulting or hiring? And our answer is: it depends a lot on the stage you are in! In some moments it is possible to do some training and learn techniques and ways to solve these challenges. In others, it is necessary to have the support of an outside expert to help incorporate and put all this teaching into practice. To help you understand better, I’ll suggest below some very common scenarios for you to try to identify yourself in a situation and understand what step you’re in and how Agility can help you, either with training or consulting. Check out:1 – “I still don’t know about agile methods, I just heard about it.”
If you hear a lot about Agility but don’t understand it very well, there are some literatures that can help you, such as: “The art of doing double the work in half the time“, by Jeff Sutherland and “Scrum and XP straight from the Trenches by Henrik Kniberg. These two books are indispensable for anyone starting out in this universe! Now, if you need richer material, and have the support of a person who will teach you in practice, answering more specific questions, training such as Professional Scrum Foundations will give you this quick and applicable knowledge, plus you’ll earn a voucher to take the official Scrum.org PSMI exam.2 – “I researched it, I know a little bit, but I have doubts if it works in my reality.”
If agile methods and concepts are no longer a pain in the ass, but you still find it difficult to incorporate them into your daily life, you can unlock this opportunity with the help of an experienced professional. This is quite common to happen and can be easily resolved with a quick diagnosis. Get in touch with us, we’ve scheduled a free meeting to make this diagnosis. Another way to find out if it applies in your reality is to watch this video – we explain how to implement agile principles in any team, whether in the Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Legal, Operations areas, among others, especially outside IT. Click here and watch!3 – “I’ve read a lot, but I don’t know if I’m applying it in the best way.”
Have you reorganized your team to use Scrum and other agile concepts, read some books and learned some dynamics, but still realize that this hasn’t been the best way or that you have things to improve to make the team more effective? Calm down that you can improve and adjust the method much more to your daily life. It is ideal to seek this knowledge empirically, learning and improving daily, but if you need to accelerate this process to get better results, my tip is to invest in practical knowledge. And this can happen in two ways: with a Fundamentals course with practical and advanced techniques for your company, to train a group of people through trainings in company. Or have the support of a specialized consultancy to increase the agile maturity of those involved. discover the best way to implement agile methods in your day to day, having visible benefits in the short term.4 – “I want to learn more, but I have limited money.”
Okay, if the moment is not appropriate for a large investment in training people within your company, there are several options for individual training that can be done according to each person’s area of expertise. This is the time to choose some people from your team, or yourself, and seek their professionalization. In addition to the Scrum Foundations course – essential for anyone starting out in Agility, you can go a step further and specialize by taking the Product Owner or Scrum Master, for example, and replicate all this knowledge internally in your organization. If you are a leader in your organization, the PAL-E is a great way to learn more about how to make teams more agile.5 – “I know I can have benefits and that it applies in my reality, but I don’t know which ones, I don’t even know how…”
At this stage, in order to have these results more quickly and assertively, it is essential to bet on a good diagnosis in order to have a solution focused on your reality. For these new concepts to truly generate value, they must be deeply, professionally and customized to your needs. Don’t run the risk of deploying Agility in your area mechanically! In a free diagnosis and just 2 hours, we can help you understand the best agile process for your team to have more results and more productivity.Click here and get your quick diagnosis < /a>
6 – “I’ve tried using the practices, but I feel I still do wrong things and so I don’t get all the benefits.”
If this is your current challenge, it is important to have key people to qualify and provide training according to their area of expertise and take this knowledge to other layers of the company, such as leaders, managers and directors, so that the impact of this new knowledge be much larger and provide more results in several areas.Learn about Scrum training Master, Agile Leadership Essentials</ em> and Scaled Professional Scrum</a >.
But, if it’s still difficult for you to see how these methods help you to be more agile, have more productivity and better deliveries, look for a consultancy that will help you identify the best practices for your reality and remove ties from the system that you own today.7 – “I already do a lot of agile practices, but I feel that my company still has ties…”
That’s it! If you can already identify the impediments that hinder team performance and deliverables, but still cannot remove them, you need to work on the culture, practices, product and people, so that the whole mindset be transformed, be really agile.Understand how our Enterprise Consulting works</ a>
