Agile

Agile is one of those words that are just keeps on cropping up in discussions, but it’s only fairly recently I started to think about how we work agile into Agile Working..

It’s such a simple concept, but so many systems and processes that surround us in our daily lives seem to go against the agility ethos. For example where I’d like my work to be more agile would be in the order processing and purchasing areas, but thinking of the challenges we face in those areas means tackling work itself would have to be done in a radically different manner.

On the one hand we have internal processes, which by their very nature are things we can control and therefore, however hard it might appear, we can overcome those obstacles pretty readily.

More of a challenge however, is in the external processes that by their very nature mean we rely on other companies, service providers, or government organisations, which obviously make from getting from point A to point B much more challenging.

There’s a number of site you can check out to read more about this, one of the best articles I’ve found so far is here.