The value of people in agile methodologies

WHAT IS AGILE?

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Lately we are hearing a lot about agile, agility, agile methodologies, etc. But what exactly is agile? It is a work philosophy used by the most innovative companies to manage their projects and that helps people to work as a team to achieve their business objectives, always taking into account a simple and powerful requirement, people.

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Human capital is one of the most important components that all companies have. It is vitally important to always take them into account and help establish a horizontal way of working, where teams are self-organized and managed. These teams must be made up of multidisciplinary profiles who are passionate about their work.

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One of our main objectives is to be highly competitive, providing our collaborators with the best alternatives to cover their needs. Thanks to agile methodologies, we have tools to identify the components that provide the greatest value to customers.

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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

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There are three concepts that must be taken into account when talking about digital transformation: business, technology and culture. Understand the business to be able to exploit it digitally, know the technology to boost the business on the internet and understand the culture well to work on the product. To be clear about what really adds value to customers, it is necessary that these elements are perfectly integrated.

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WHAT IS DELIVERING VALUE?

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We can use the example of the North American expert consultant, Jeff Patton, on the concept of value. We have to deliver €20 to our client. In the traditional project management model, we would have a €20 bill cut into 20 parts. The team's job will be to recompose the bill until it is completed on a certain date. It is likely that when the delivery date arrives, the bill will not be finished and therefore no value will have been delivered to the client.

In project management with the agile method, we would collect €1 coins and deliver them to the client in the shortest possible time, in such a way that we are delivering value before having the entire product finished.

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AGILE METHODOLOGIES IN ROIBACK

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For some years now, here at Roiback we have been working with agile methodologies. One of our main objectives is to be highly competitive, providing our collaborators with the best alternatives to cover their needs. Thanks to agile methodologies, we have tools to identify the components that provide the greatest value to customers.

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As I mentioned earlier, one of the fundamental factors when we talk about agile methodologies is that of people. Everyone can contribute with their experience and common sense to improve processes through observation, inspection and adaptation, always in search of continuous improvement. Agile helps to establish a plan, taking into account that it may fail, which is why it is important that the plan is simple but adds value to the product. Using agile methodologies contributes to enhancing creativity and originality in the development of tasks, products or services, since there is no magic recipe.

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Change is important, transformations are complicated, but if we don't change anything, we will inevitably become obsolete. In short, changing is necessary and the sooner we find strategies to respond quickly to changes (increasingly aggressive and demanding in the market), the more competitive we will be. Undoubtedly, we are on the right track thanks to the valuable human talent that is part of the Roiback family.

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In future publications, I will talk about the different strategies and tools that we are using in our digital transformation process through agile methodologies.

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