People Centric Agility
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2 min readOct 19, 2017
On an everyday basis, product development cycles face uncertainty in many ways in the form of people allocation, cost of optimization, and most importantly — customer demanded changes.
The uncertainty is worsened by market competition; for example when a new product is launched by a rival company.
The trends above led to confluence of professionals and consultants from everywhere to create a better approach to developing solutions, Scrum was developed to as a way to handle the fast pace of technological change.
“ If I Had an Hour to solve a Problem i’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions “
Albert Einstein
Scream of the Reality:
- Lack of support from Management
- Bad Implementation
- External pressures
- Organizational and Communication Problems
- Chaotic realities of being human
- Lack of People readiness
- Miss understanding of key complexities
- Most is about people and their interaction
What really happened is misunderstanding in 2 different area:
- Technical Complexities
- People Complexities
Common Truth of Engineering:
- Effective solution of Practical Problems
- Scientific Knowledge
- Craftsmanship Experiment
- Problem driven Not a Process Driven
- Engineer is still a Human, it is People Centric
People Centric Strategy :
- Hiring right people
- Organizational culture
- on-boarding Process
- Proven capabilities
- Measurement of competencies
- reward and incentives
- structured & continuous learning
- Rhythm of Communication
- Team Building and re organization
