Why Agile Methodology matters
Agile methodology is often confused by its delivery frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban.
Agile culture consisting of its guiding values has far more to offer. Agile means to be able to move quickly and easily. If one deep dives into it, one would realize that it means divide and conquer, which involves a circular feedback loop of development, testing, monitoring and repeat. It involves placing higher importance on individual interactions over rigid processes. It asks for a work-able solution over comprehensive documentation. It requires responding to a change with firm actions over following a pre-charted course of action.
While agile seems counterintuitive to scaling an organization, maintaining a judicious balance between process and agility is a tactful art and those who do so, reap the benefits.
In today’s world, optimization, the very core of enhancing productivity, isthe way to go forward. One may ask, what is optimization, and most probably will even argue that their system is working “just” fine and there is nothing to improve. Unfortunately, lots of companies learn the hard way that there is no ‘one-for-all’ technology and that to continuously improve is the only ‘one-for-all’ solution.
Everything is moving fast these days. There is no room for error, nothing can be left to chance. We need to leverage the skills which we have and for us, humans, that is definitely the power to adapt, improvise and improve. This is where the Agile Methodology kicks in. Everyone in the system needs to understand that they all are cogs in the wheel and for the whole system to work smoothly, all of them have to collaborate and pass on the information and learning so that others can improve.
Unrealised benefits, lack of visibility on key KPIs, and stalled projects point us to the fact that selecting the right kind of technology and the ability to visualize the progress through bars/charts and actionable insights is the way forward.
More often than not, new technology involves new processes or training to be developed. It might even change the performance metrics. Thus, the gradual integration of new and legacy systems allows people to get accustomed to changes and also prevents resentment among them. Advanced and ever-evolving technologies enabled platforms are the way forward which enables the companies to realize the benefits which sometimes they don’t even know about and this is what we are going to talk about in our coming blogs. At Clean Slate, we are imbibing a culture of Agile Methodology in our products and organizational structure to help customers improve their internal supply chain processes.
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