{"id":4997,"date":"2018-03-06T13:13:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T13:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/?p=4997"},"modified":"2018-03-06T13:13:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T13:13:04","slug":"why-agile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/why-agile\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Agile is important?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am sure by now you have heard about agile, companies big and small like Amazon<\/a> and Google<\/a> are using agile to manage work.\u00a0You\u00a0may be forgiven if you\u00a0wonder why agile is used more and more for managing work and projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you still think Agile is good for managing software projects only, you are making a big mistake. Not only all projects can and should use Agile, but organizations as a whole should also become Agile too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The headlines are everywhere, companies who embrace\/deploy Agile\u00a0project management<\/a> in their workplace are eating the world. So why Agile? because it is proven to work and get results.<\/span><\/p>\n

Too bad these companies do not advertise\u00a0how they\u00a0organize their workforce and share with everyone the amazing benefits they get from turning their companies into Agile enterprises.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The old ways of the rigidly structured workforce and work rules don’t cut it anymore. In the brave new world of the twenty-first century, things change fast, really fast!<\/span><\/p>\n

Technology is evolving and changing at a record pace, the information\/data we consume every day gets bigger and is multiplied by many factors every month.<\/span><\/p>\n

The time we have to analyze a mountain of data and make work-related the right decisions are getting shorter and shorter.<\/span><\/p>\n

The traditional models of managing projects\/work like the waterfall\u00a0method<\/a> and hierarchical team structures are too rigid to respond to the insane pace of change\u00a0an organization goes through every day.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We are in an unattainable situation and sooner than later\u00a0the way we work will break down. If we don’t adapt and adapt soon to these changes, we will be left behind and vanish as an enterprise.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a fact that close to 60% of all projects fail <\/a>or finish late and over budget. To fix this problem we need to move to an Agile method of doing things.<\/span><\/p>\n

The question for every manager should not be why agile, but how to become agile.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Why Agile?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

You ask why Agile? I am glad you asked. In this paper we will cover how\u00a0to quantify and qualify the benefits of Agile and how do you go about implementing agile in your organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

First things first. The bad news; Bringing Agile to traditional organizations is not easy. It is really hard. It takes a lot of time and effort to make an organization agile.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Good news; Your team’s productivity goes way up and you make a ton of money when you become a fully Agile organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

To be clear, your whole organization from top to bottom needs to adopt the Agile way of doing business. You can’t piecemeal this process.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some executives try to take a middle ground and make the development team Agile. Although this is better than nothing, you get the full benefits of Agile only when the whole Organization is Agile.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What is an Agile organization?<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

An Agile organization is a lean organization that can respond to new events or challenges fast, almost in real-time.<\/span><\/p>\n

In such an organization, decisions are made fast using the available\u00a0data. To make this possible, the organization constantly collects data on all aspects of its business, the competition, and the market.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0The characteristics\u00a0of an agile organization are:<\/span><\/p>\n