5 Ways to Successfully Action Agile Management for a Project!

Agile Management

Big projects require big thinking and a tight knit ship. Every team has its strengths and every team has its flaws. Agile management moves to highlight these in an intricate way and find a way through with fast impact.

To successfully action agile management for any project, there are five clear steps to take. This guide has the information you need. 

First Things First: Know Your Techniques

The best way to understand agile management is to learn about it and complete successful training programs. Finding an Agile Coaching certification with a high success rate and positive commendations is easy enough if you look in the right places, and it will definitely improve your prospects when it comes to putting things into action.

The alternative of winging it on the online research you’ve done won’t cut it in a business context because your inexperience will come out at some point or another. 

Define the Roles Within

One of the primary factors that drive the success rate behind agile management approaches with regard to team projects is always implementing clearly defined roles within the structure. Every single employee on the team must intimately know who they are, what their task is, and how they are going to achieve it. Where it falls down is if a cog isn’t turning, and this would significantly hinder the output. 

Hold Regular Meetings

Ideally, with agile management practices, there should be a daily stand up meeting for the whole team. Each iteration should also partake in its own meetings to comment on its individual goals within the wider scope of the project.

For the whole team meeting, the focus should be on mainly retrospective actions that you can impact to move the project forward, for instance, reviewing what has worked over the past week of business. For individual meetings, a continuation of this but on a smaller scale is sufficient. 

Embrace Getting Things Wrong

In order to keep things moving continuously, you have to swallow a few mistakes. No project was ever completed without a few setbacks, and these methods may see more ‘failures’ in delivery than other strategies because of the streamlined, fast-tracked approach to completion.

Without focusing too much on what isn’t working, you are better able to bolster the things that are. Time can be spent during the retrospective meetings to discuss how things should go where it isn’t quite gelling, but the time spent actually building the project shouldn’t dwell on this too much. 

Be an Active Listener

Another key requirement of your role in agile management will be to listen actively. There is a big difference between listening and actively listening in that the latter requires action and empathy on a larger scale. Active listening to your team’s concerns, questions, and successes will bring clarity, togetherness, nurture, and engagement on a highly desirable scale. Find the time once a week to be that person and your team will soar. 

Implementing agile management techniques will bring success to any project if executed correctly. Teams need collaboration and strong project leadership for the strategy to find its home. 

Agile Management article and permission to publish here provided by Carol Trehearn. Originally written for Supply Chain Game Changer and published on March 6, 2023.