Make the most of your business opportunities by being agile

Are you missing out on the opportunities that come your businesses way?

What happens when you and your team adopt an agile way of working?

Why risk the future of your business by not being agile?

Discover a framework for success in your business

Don’t get bogged down with the rigid methods of working in your business

Implement the right system of working in your business and make the most of the opportunities that come your way

When you and your team adopt the right system of working you can face the challenges head-on

When it comes to your business, how many times have you started a new project, faced a challenge or wanted to make the most of an opportunity, and you and your team have started eagerly, only to get bogged down in other work, making slow (or no) progress?

How can the way you scrum bring better results for your business?

What happens when you put the Scrum framework to work in your business?

Adopt an agile management system in your business and scrum to success

Time to gain the advantage over your competitors by being agile

Learn from Toyota how Agile works

Toyota call it continuous improvement, learn from them how being agile can work for you

Because your business matters to you, be more agile

Time to scrum together and build the success of your business by being agile

Your business wins when you follow the 3 distinct stages of Scrum – Shu Ha Ri

Implement the scrum framework in your business successfully by starting with Shu

Why risk the future of your business by not following the Shu Ha Ri path to agile

Time to scrum to success in your business with Shu Ha Ri

Discover the importance of a scrum board to the future of your agile management system

Why does a sprint and scrum hold the key to success for your business

Being agile in your business can be achieved when you work in 3 distinct stages

Learn by ‘doing’ when it comes to being agile in your business – follow the Shu Ha Ri path…

1. How do you react to opportunities and challenges facing your business and get your team to do this with you? To take this a stage further, how do you make this new way of working – with your team having the ability to be reactive – agile? Click here to learn more.

2. Adopting an agile management system in your business might seem like a pipe dream right now, especially if it’s a totally new concept to you. However, click here, to discover it can and has been implemented by businesses large and small, and if it's good enough for Google, PWC and Amazon, then surely you can give it a try.

3. The agile management system has influenced almost every successful manufacturer across the globe. It also influenced the ‘Scrum’ framework. Click here to discover more.

4. For the technology industry, Scrum has become the default framework for creating new software, and it is now spreading into all areas of business – why? In his book Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, Jeff Sutherland details the 4 principles of Scrum, click here to discover what they are and how you can implement in your business.

5. Being agile in your business can be achieved when you work in 3 distinct stages. Learn by ‘doing’ and follow the Shu Ha Ri path… click here to discover more.

6. The Scrum framework is an agile methodology that helps teams work collaboratively to deliver complex projects in short, iterative cycles called Sprints, allowing for continuous improvement and adaptability. A key insight is that Scrum is something you learn by doing, and it has proven to work better in 3 distinct stages – Shu Ha Ri. Click here to discover more.

1. How do you react to opportunities and challenges facing your business and get your team to do this with you? To take this a stage further, how do you make this new way of working – with your team having the ability to be reactive – agile? Click here to learn more.

2. Adopting an agile management system in your business might seem like a pipe dream right now, especially if it’s a totally new concept to you. However, click here, to discover it can and has been implemented by businesses large and small, and if it's good enough for Google, PWC and Amazon, then surely you can give it a try.

3. The agile management system has influenced almost every successful manufacturer across the globe. It also influenced the ‘Scrum’ framework. Click here to discover more.

4. For the technology industry, Scrum has become the default framework for creating new software, and it is now spreading into all areas of business – why? In his book Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, Jeff Sutherland details the 4 principles of Scrum, click here to discover what they are and how you can implement in your business.

5. Being agile in your business can be achieved when you work in 3 distinct stages. Learn by ‘doing’ and follow the Shu Ha Ri path… click here to discover more.

6. The Scrum framework is an agile methodology that helps teams work collaboratively to deliver complex projects in short, iterative cycles called Sprints, allowing for continuous improvement and adaptability. A key insight is that Scrum is something you learn by doing, and it has proven to work better in 3 distinct stages – Shu Ha Ri. Click here to discover more.

Blog 1 – React successfully to the challenges and opportunities facing your business by being agile

How many times have you wanted to implement a change and your team have been reluctant or are lacking enthusiasm?

You might think that your people are the issue – they want to stay how they are, preferring the status quo, and they aren’t engaged in the new idea or change – but the likelihood is that you have historically tried and failed to effectively run projects or make changes in your business. Your team may be fatigued with the lack of success or the time it takes to implement these projects. In other words, it might be that your system of managing and implementing projects is the issue.

So how do you change this?

How do you react to opportunities and challenges facing your business and get your team to do this with you?

To take this a stage further, how do you make this new way of working – with your team having the ability to be reactive – agile?

Adopting an agile management system in your business might seem like a pipe dream right now, especially if it’s a totally new concept to you. However, it can and has been implemented by businesses large and small, and if it's good enough for Google, PWC and Amazon, then surely you can give it a try.

Click here to discover more about the agile management framework, its 4 principles and how to implement it in your business.

Blog 2 – Discover the importance of the Scrum framework when it comes to being agile in your business

I am sure you have heard of the phrase ‘continuous improvement’. Toyota pioneered this method of working, which has since become a global benchmark for effective business management systems.

The agile management system has influenced almost every successful manufacturer across the globe.

It also influenced the ‘Scrum’ framework.

The Scrum framework was created by Dr Jeff Sutherland in 1995 and is based on the way a rugby scrum works – a small, focused, highly connected and coordinated team working to achieve a quick, clear result every time they get together.

In his book Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, Jeff Sutherland details the 4 principles of Scrum:

1. People and interactions over processes and tools
2. Working products over excessive documentation
3. Customer collaboration over negotiation
4. Responding to change over following a rigid plan

For the technology industry, Scrum has become the default framework for creating new software, and it is now spreading into all areas of business – why?

Because it works so well and works so fast!

“At its root, Scrum is based on a simple idea, whenever you start a project, why not regularly check in, see if what you're doing is heading in the right direction and if it's actually what the people want? And question whether there are ways to improve how you are doing, what you are doing, any ways of doing it better and faster, and what might be keeping you from doing that.” – Dr Jeff Sutherland

Click here to discover the details of the Scrum framework, how you can implement it in your business and why Shu Ha Ri is the key to your success.

Blog 3 – Sprint your way to an agile business

Being agile in your business does not just mean reacting to every opportunity or challenge that comes your way. Without a framework, plan or structure, this can lead to chaos and confusion within your team and creates a demotivated and unengaged workforce who have no idea what to expect next.

However, staying the same and following rigid plans, regardless of what crops up along the way, will also yield the same result.

So how do you react in an agile way, whilst still having a plan?

You follow the Scrum framework. The Scrum framework is an agile methodology that helps teams work collaboratively to deliver complex projects in short, iterative cycles called Sprints, allowing for continuous improvement and adaptability.

A key insight is that Scrum is something you learn by doing, and it has proven to work better in 3 distinct stages – Shu Ha Ri.

Shu Ha Ri is a concept that describes the stages of learning and mastery.

• Shu:   Follow the rules and practices closely, focusing on learning the fundamentals.
• Ha:     Once you understand the principles behind the practices you can begin to adapt and modify them.
• Ri:       Now you have mastered the principles and can innovate, creating new approaches beyond the original framework.

There is much more detail about the Scrum framework in the Business Breakthrough report and associated tools and resources, but here are the key steps (following the 3 distinct stages of Shu Ha Ri:

1. Pick a Product Owner – the person with the vision of what you are going to do
2. Pick a Scrum Team – (3-9 people) with cross-functional skills
3. Pick a Scrum Master – a coach to help prevent delays
4. Create a Product Backlog – a prioritised list of tasks or features
5. Estimate – the team estimate the effort needed to achieve each priority
6. Use a Scrum Board – this clearly shows the product backlog as ‘Do/Doing/Done’
7. Sprint Planning – the team selects items from the backlog to complete in a Sprint.
8. Sprint – time-boxed period (usually 2-4 weeks) where the team works on the selected tasks
9. Daily Standup – brief daily meeting to assess progress and address roadblocks
10. Sprint Review – a meeting to demonstrate completed work and gather feedback
11. Sprint Retrospective – a session to reflect on the Sprint and identify improvements for the next one.

Then the next Sprint will start.

Click here to discover why a Scrum Team, a Scrum Board, a Sprint and a Daily Standup will ensure you and your team make regular and tangible progress on your projects, leading to greater success for your business.

Scrum and sprint your way to success in your business…

How effective are you and your team at reacting and adapting to the constantly evolving challenges and opportunities facing your business?

You might have a list of tasks and projects that you feel will move your business forward, but you and your team lack the time or inclination to get started.

What system do you have in place to make a start? Do you even have a system?

In this 'Business Sprinters Win' edition of Business Breakthrough you will learn, in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea:

• from big business why Gantt charts and ‘waterfall’ management systems do not work
• the principles of the agile management ‘Scrum’ framework
• how to follow the rules strictly using Shu Ha Ri

Click here to discover the value of a Scrum Team, a Scrum Board, a Daily Stand Up and a 1- to 4-week Sprint when it comes to making real progress and building success in your business.