Using agile project management principles to influence business decisions

Assessing business performance is important to drive improvement. And while it may be tempting to judge your business performance by a client’s success or a customer’s satisfaction, creating positive change for your own business can often be side-lined to focus on day-to-day tasks.

In 2016, our team at Blue Wren made the switch to Scrum – a form of agile project management – not just at project level, but to influence the strategic direction of the business. Since then, it has enabled us to not only become more streamlined and focused in our quest for continual improvement for our clients, but also with our own strategy and growth plan.

Adapting to change

Rather than sticking with something simply because it is what you have always done it, remaining versatile to an ever-changing business landscape can keep you ahead of your competitors and ensures that you are optimising your resources.

Do what delivers the most value

On a granular level, this allows you to understand what each team member and department need to progress, whether that’s on a daily basis or further into the future. It also gives you a much clearer vision of the bigger picture.

This way your business remains self-aware, navigating what could have been a headache-laden process of damage-limitation and turning it into a minor adjustment.

We could see what was delivering the most value, as well as what worked less well, and adapted. Implementing agile project management principles to influence business decisions doesn’t always mean ripping up the rule book. It means acknowledging your goals and establishing the best way of reaching them. And while your goals may remain the same, the best way to reach them won’t; and if the journey to reach them won’t always be linear, then neither should the path.