Agile Work Place
“Real Talk in the Workplace about the Tradeoffs that come with Agile Work Environments.”
As we move into a more integrated work/life blend, it’s becoming increasingly prudent for employees and employers to speak directly to the tradeoffs that come with this newer ways of working.
Accepting the Employee Challenge
For staff, it’s vitally important to recognize that the challenge that comes with flexibility in working is the greater responsibility to succeed under personal motivation. To meet deadlines and commitments without micromanagement from team leaders and motivators.
Managing through the Direct Actions
In an ideal agile workplace, staff come and go as necessary. The legacy model of heavy supervising and micromanagement just isn’t possible under agile methodologies. In fact, a manager who tries too hard to track the comings and goings of staff will not only frustrate themselves, but their employees as well.
Instead, measurable commitments become the touchstones of success, deadlines instead of timecards. This promotes a healthy culture of completion and personal responsibility, and drives productivity. Central to this is an honesty and commitment to the agile process, with open lines of communication throughout the organization’s employers and employees. This speaks directly to what is expected in the agile workplace, and addresses concerns that may arise with staff who are comfortable in a legacy system.
The wonders of SaaS, cloud storage and computing are driving agile and remote teams to greater success. From a business perspective, there’s just so many benefits to running a team remotely:
- Save on office space costs
- Hire the best of the best, regardless of where they are located
- Cover time zones globally without overtime
- Staff interested in remote working are, by necessity, technology capable.
Those already comfortable with the agile culture are starting to spread their wings into the remote working lifestyle. This trend will continue, powered by both generational and technology change.
Both software and hardware adoption is already changing in the business place. We’re seeing an avalanche of SaaS services replace cumbersome legacy programs. SaaS offers a lot more value to the company with features such as:
- Low to zero hosting resources
- Monthly fees instead of complex licensing arrangements
- Account management through the web
- Universal patching and updating from the vendor.
On the hardware front, SaaS is already saving costs for businesses through the reduction of on-site hardware, with many SaaS deployments running on their own cloud or capable of working on your business cloud.
“Technology will continue to drive advanced collaboration in agile workplaces, but smart companies will make technology work for them instead of vice versa.”
Benefits of the Agile Working Environment?
While Agile might be relatively new to some industries, businesses are already benefiting from agile methodologies. Current trends point to a number of benefits that come from a more flexible and task focused approach to work life.
- Increased productivity: Staff have more ownership and personal
responsibility over their role, leading to better productivity. - Less staff turnover: Staff who have more control over their work hours are generally happier in their jobs.
- Cost savings: Electricity, floor space and other efficiencies are made possible through agile.
The wonders of SaaS, cloud storage and computing are driving agile and remote teams to greater success. From a business perspective, there’s just so many benefits to running a team remotely:
- Save on office space costs
- Hire the best of the best, regardless of where they are located
- Cover time zones globally without overtime
- Staff interested in remote working are, by necessity, technology capable.
Those already comfortable with the agile culture are starting to spread their wings into the remote working lifestyle. This trend will continue, powered by both generational and technology change.
Generation Change
Baby boomers and GenX’s are already more comfortable with the cloud and a delocalized work suite, while Gen Y employees have grown up with cloud tech, and arrive in the workforce equipped to deal with digital communications and remote collaboration.
Technological Change
Artificial intelligence is already learning how to improve software and provide a better user experience through data. Virtual and augmented reality technology will continue to push the envelope for remote collaboration and sharing.
RealTek’s Professional Consultants will help your organization adopt Agile Work Environments and the on-boarding SaaS. Agile Work Environments produce REAL amazing benefits of Agile location independent enablement and productivity.
