Agile business management

Application of agile practices

While changing mindsets, values, and principles is the foundation for agile transformation, everyday agile behavior must be reflected in a company's practices and processes. Thus, for agility to be successfully implemented in a company, agile practices are needed.

In this context, agile practices are concrete implementations of agile values and principles; they are considered tools with which agility can be anchored in daily collaboration. In the meantime, there are a large number of agile practices. In the following, three essential practices for agile working or also for agile management are presented.

The first agile practice is called "Daily Stand-Up". Here, a daily short 15-minute meeting should be used to present the current status of one's tasks to each other. The goal here is to identify and resolve potential problems or even errors at an early stage. The meeting is clearly structured, with team members answering three questions: Which activities did I perform yesterday? Which will I carry out today? Am I being hindered in any way from executing? These continuous feedback loops are critical to agile working, creating transparency and facilitating collaboration.

The next practice is called a "retrospective." The team reviews the process and the particular methodology chosen for the previous process. With the goal of continuously improving the work processes and identifying possible sources of errors.

The third agile practice involves the use of so-called "task boards". Data and information on project and customer requirements are visualized on boards. The goal is to provide all employees with the same state of information in order to prevent possible misunderstandings. In addition, visualization enables easier integration of further ideas, insights and objections.

The integration of agile practices is an increasingly important criterion of today's companies. Organizations with outdated ways of working, structures and processes find it difficult to keep up with increasing competition and adapt to constant changes.

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