12 agile principles to boost productivity in your Organisation

Agile principles are being around from a long time, yet many organization is unaware of it or they simply ignore it, many may not know it’s true power.

Agile is about Individuals and Interactions more than processes and tools, Working Software more than comprehensive documentation, Customer Collaboration more than contract negotiation, Responding to Change more than following a plan, and it’s being around since 2001.

Agile is much focused on quick responses to change and continuous development rather than following an old typical plan and contact hierarchy.

Here is how these 12 agile principles helps to boost productivity in your Organisation

1) Satisfy the Customer

It’s all about Customer satisfaction, Agile will help your organization to gain credibility at the early stage, in order to satisfy the customer, you will need to continuous delivery the valuable project.

2) Welcome Changes

Welcome changes requirements, even late in the development stage, which ultimately gives you a competitive advantage over your competitors and definitely adds up value to the software but make sure that it shouldn’t over complicate and delay the project

3) Deliver frequently

The Project should be delivered frequently, we would have to make sure that the Sprint is designed properly and effectively, it has to be delivered in weeks, possibly as low as 2 weeks.

4) Work together

working together is a team spirit which helps to develop their skills and creates a healthy environment, Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.

5) Trust and Support

Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment, time and support they need and trust them to get the job done.

6) Face-to-Face conversation

The Team should have a face to face conversation which is the most efficient and effective method of conveying information

7) Working software

Working software is the primary measure of progress, When it comes to working software, always make sure that your designer, developer, engineer teams are coordinating with each other and maintaining the quality of the technical architecture.

8) Sustainable development

Agile promotes Sustainable development, the production should be constant, adding features which last longer without lying to bugs or errors in the project.

9) Continuous attention

The Agile master should have to gives continuous attention to technical excellence and good design which ultimately enhances agility.

10) Maintain simplicity

Always make things as simple as possible, this will ensure we are on the right path and we aren’t overloading and maximizing the amount of work not done, that very essential.

11) Self-Organizing teams

The best architectures, requirements, and design emerge from self-organizing teams

12) Reflect and adjust

At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective and efficient than tunes and adjust the behavior accordingly

(Image Credit: KnowledgeTrain)

Also Read: Project Management Introduction

For more Knowledgeable Content, Keeping My Blog.

Let me know in the comments Are you Planning to implement Agile in your organization?