Adopting Agile values ​​cannot be decreed!

Adopting Agile values ​​on a daily basis requires management willingness, employee freedom, an adapted organizational system, an adapted and adaptive Customer culture.

The Agile Manifesto  in 2001 laid the foundations for common sense to be found in order to develop quality software, when it is needed.

The Agile values ​​provided were much more than that! Agile values ​​are a reminder to simplicity, to daily and regular contact with its customers, its employees for better collective efficiency, to implementation as desired.

Agile values ​​can be found everywhere and go well beyond the CIOs – Information Systems Department or company IT departments.

For feedback, discover my Article on the Agile Manifesto, Agile values ​​, and associated principles according to 3 focuses:

• Focus Intensio : Agile values ​​for the team
• Focus Mago : Agile values ​​for each individual
• Focus Extensio : Agile values ​​for the organization

So ready to adopt Agile values?

The 3 challenges of adopting Agile values

Challenge 1: Employees are the driving forces behind the adoption of Agile values

Agile values ​​are not a fad but wanted by employees. Employees who have undergone successive transformation plans adopt Agile values ​​as soon as they understand the value mechanism and trust is established between the different layers of management.

Employees are therefore a formidable lever for transformation that the company must encourage.

Challenge 2: Agile values ​​are customer centric

There is no adoption of Agile values ​​without the desire to profoundly transform the way to serve the needs of its client.

The customer, in an individual and specific relationship, is the object of everyone’s attention.

Time-to-market is in this sense one of the major elements of the customer relationship in the broad sense in this adoption of Agile values.

Agile values ​​allow the establishment of a lasting, efficient and engaged customer relationship. This is why customer culture is at the heart of management 3.0 valeurs.

Challenge 3: Strategic management is involved and responsive

No adoption of Agile values ​​without a commitment from strategic management. Strategic management is the guarantor of the development of everyone’s skills and their ambition for the long term of the company.

Strategic management will endeavor to develop the 10 points of resilience necessary for the good function of Agile values.

What are the levers provided by Agile values?

The Agile values ​​adopted by employees then become a formidable lever of operational excellence and a productivity booster.

The teams enter into a FLOW which emerges naturally from the association of their skills and their desire to do things. The Flow and associated living management called or symbiocracy is explained here.

Daily contact with customers allows everyone to measure the value of the work produced and to maintain a sense of what is produced. It is no longer a link in the process but the daily creation of a product specifically designed for the customer. In this sense, Agile values ​​are the major levers of a process-oriented product culture transformation towards a product-value-oriented customer culture.

The company in its organizational system, simplifies its organization to focus on the value produced and the well-being of everyone: employees and customers.

Adopting Agile values ​​is the first step in an effective transformation towards the creation of the Flower of Life of an organic business

Read also towards an organic management

To find out more about Agile values ​​and its deployment, read  Harvard Business’s  Special Edition Agile Must

Author: Dominique popiolek-Ollé, Transmutation leader, Agile Executive Coach, Founder of In Imago management consulting and disruptive transformation.

Special thanks to Alexender Hauesler for the top illustration.

Traduction by Noemie Betukumesu