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Agile
An increasing number of organizations are now adopting an agile approach for digitalization, transformations, product development and project implementations. Our advisors can help identify if and where an agile approach should be practiced and which approach is best suited to create the highest value for your business. We can help prepare the organization to implement agile team management, and we can help you manage both individual teams, several cooperative teams and entire business areas. Our experience is that when agile is used in a proper manner, it leads to several positive outcomes, such as:
- Higher ROI through better prioritization and continuous planning
- Lower risk through continuous testing of partial deliveries along the course of the product development
- Less unnecessary time spent on documentation
- Optimization through valuation of people rather than processes and tools
- A working environment with focus on respect, openness, and cooperation
- Increased customer satisfaction through cooperation rather than contract negotiations.
Success Factors
Working in an agile way often requires a restructuring that can be demanding for the business. Based on our experience, we see that organizations succeeding in adopting an agile approach often have the following success factors:
- Common understanding of values and principles
- A well thought business organization and team composition, but at the same time knowledge, openness, and acceptance for a flexible approach.
- Choose the optimal method and approach considering your business’ needs and goals
- A clear idea of how to practice change management
Our experience shows that companies gain value from using an agile approach even in scaled versions, at all levels of the organization. We have seen positive effects from team level up to the very top level of organizations. Gritera helps you identify whether an agile approach should be implemented, and which agile methods are best suited to create the most impact for your business.
Success Factors
Working in an agile way often requires a restructuring that can be demanding for the business. Based on our experience, we see that organizations succeeding in adopting an agile approach often have the following success factors:
- Common understanding of values and principles
- A well thought business organization and team composition, but at the same time knowledge, openness, and acceptance for a flexible approach.
- Choose the optimal method and approach considering your business’ needs and goals
- A clear idea of how to practice change management
Our experience shows that companies gain value from using an agile approach even in scaled versions, at all levels of the organization. We have seen positive effects from team level up to the very top level of organizations. Gritera helps you identify whether an agile approach should be implemented, and which agile methods are best suited to create the most impact for your business.
Your Team in Safe Hands
We truly believe that the most effective agile team leaders have an interdisciplinary knowledge, helping them succeed on behalf of the organizations we advise. Gritera has an interdisciplinary team consisting of agile team leaders who specialize in several different disciplines and have different backgrounds and experience from a great number of companies in the Norwegian market. This interdisciplinary approach ensures that our consultants can identify and establish the best solutions for your business through well-founded strategic advice, as well as flexible and efficient operational support.
We Know Agile Frameworks
Prince 2 Agile
In Prince2 Agile you get both a structured project methodology as well as an agile way of thinking, all in one package. This is a method which suits especially well businesses who wish to adapt and convert their current project methodology into a more agile manner.
Lean
Lean focuses on project management and is often described as a philosophy with a customer-orientated approach - and is meant to increase the profitability of your business. People working with Lean is typically practicing agile approaches. Keywords: Understand what is of value for the customer à Create flow à Become a learning organization.
Scrum
Scrum is a framework that facilitates efficient product development, often with software-based products. The methodology of scrum leaves it up the scrum team to decide most of the techniques being used. Gritera will of course be able to give some tips based on our experiences!
LeSS
Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is a framework used to scale Scrum, Lean and agile development to bigger product groups.
Kanban
The Kanban method was developed by Toyota for streamlining their factories and many today associate it with the widely used Kanban board consisting of post-its (ref. icon). The Lean mindset originally comes from Kanban. Kanban can be described as a form of Lean method for software development. Kanban also has a lot in common with Scrum, but has a less established procedure for change.
The Spotify Model
Much of Spotify’s success can be accredited to their unique approach and model for organizing effective development teams (aka. “Squads” in the model). Their model focuses on autonomy, communication, accountability, and quality. When the squads coordinate with each other within an area, we call them a Tribe led by a Tribe Lead. The model supports additional scaling. In some areas it has a lot in common with Scrum, but the model is somewhat more flexible.
SAFe
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a system for implementing Agile, Lean and DevOps methodologies on a larger scale. SAFe is the most popular framework for a number of leading companies.