Today it is almost “bon ton” to talk about being “agile”. It is as if the word is written on billboards along every road you take: if you want innovations, be agile; if you want to understand your clients, be agile; if you want to manage your personnel, you seem to have no other choice.
And the market responds. Your bank is introducing a new agile team to react to clients’ demands. A software company you approach to make a webshop proudly describes its agile processes.
In reality, these are different agiles and you may be prepared that businesses in different industries have quite different approaches.
Agile Organization
In a broad sense, the one that you usually come across when speaking about the organization of a business as a whole, “agile” refers to the type of organization that incorporates small independent teams of people who have many or most of the skills the team needs to carry out its mission. Such teams are usually focused and dedicated groups of specialists created to work on a specific project that typically requires communication with customers and prompt decisions.
What characterizes such groups
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