the Key Elements of Business Agility

Agile is a broad range of frameworks and techniques that focus on using fast feedback, and an iterative incremental approach.

Agile is a company culture based on creating value for the customer. 

It is a special mindset shared by employees whose attention is focused on goals and the concerns of the consumer. In this frame of reference, the client becomes the boss of every associate in the company, not just the boss of the sales manager. 

The company is then able to function as a single organism whose purpose is to find out what the customer needs as quickly as possible and fulfill those needs faster than their competitors.

 Agile is the ability to create and respond to change. It is a way of dealing with, and ultimately succeeding in, an uncertain and turbulent environment.

Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle.

 "Agile" is a collection of ideas, frameworks and practices which include Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, Lean, Continuous Improvement, and others, as well as frameworks which have not yet been invented. 

These frameworks are often combined and tweaked by the more experienced Agile professionals as they adapt to the organisations they are supporting, and apply the relevant elements from the frameworks to get things done. 

Agile itself is not the goal.

Having an Agile Mindset is the key (see below), whereas following a framework too religiously almost always leads to problems.

Agile was originally envisioned to deliver software, however it is a mindset which can applied to almost every aspect of business or life:  Agile for Everything and Agile for Everyone.

Scrum is a framework for getting complex problems solved and delivered at the highest possible value and get them delivered quickly.

An agile mindset is a way of approaching things.

It is an attitude that supports the agile working environment through core values, these include:

• Respect: Working with your team as a collective; united in your vision, purpose, and goal.
• Collaboration: As mentioned above, you need to have the ability to work with your team and carry empathy for Your customers’ needs. This is what drives the value in the work you do.
• Learning cycles: Responding to change means learning from failure and making improvements to do better next time.
• Improvement: The output from learning cycles is your ability to learn from what works and what has not. And adapt from what you learned to improve, first slowly and then at a rapid pace. The beauty is that it is organic — because it is intrinsic on the process, you improve in small incremental changes.
• Accountability: By working as a team and taking pride in ownership of the work you, you become accountable to yourself and the team.
• Being adaptive: This is about focusing on delivering value, and the ability to adapt to change.

We believe that agile is not a process, methodology, or framework; it is a mindset that welcomes uncertainty, embraces challenges, empowers individuals, and views failure as a learning opportunity. Adopting an agile mindset unleashes the brilliance of people and teams, which enables rapid discovery and faster innovation.