{"id":15445,"date":"2019-04-04T09:43:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T09:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alternativ.be\/et-si-lagile-working-etait-fait-pour-vous\/"},"modified":"2020-09-29T10:05:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T10:05:23","slug":"and-what-if-agile-working-was-meant-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alternativ.be\/en\/and-what-if-agile-working-was-meant-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"And what if Agile Working was meant for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in February 2001, 17 leading figures in software development met to talk about their respective methods and to debate the idea of taking a unifying approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out of this meeting came the Agile Manifesto<\/strong>, which in particular recommends that, \u201cat regular intervals the team should think about ways of becoming more efficient, and then adjusting and modifying their behaviour accordingly\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ever since that momentous \u201clight bulb\u201d meeting, Agile Working<\/strong> \u2013 which is something of a state of mind<\/strong>, perhaps even a philosophy \u2013 has ceased to be strictly associated just with computing and has taken on more of the groundswell methods that have caught the imagination of so many high-performance businesses<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of the methods used in Agile Working <\/a>include fast meetings, where the participants stay on their feet <\/strong>(to check that the team is standing shoulder to shoulder and singing from the same hymn sheet), Sprints<\/strong> (where an often short deadline is set to complete a particular \u201cscrap\u201d of a project), or Scrums<\/strong> (where a list is made of the customer\u2019s requirements and the list is then prioritised based on costs; after which the length of the associated sprints can be set. Then it\u2019s: Go!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make sure that Agile Working is something experienced by everyone involved in the world of work, new links need to be created between workers and their individual and collective workspaces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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We need to provide an environment that is geared to the targets set us. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Because while Agile Working is a practice that enables companies to act on their new ideas, \u201cnew ideas<\/strong> are not created from the Agile method itself, but from the way those ideas are quickly reiterated, improved and rolled out.\u201d explains Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, the American design company whose major achievements include designing the Apple mouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The researchers at Steelcase have also laboured long over the reorganisation of the company\u2019s workspaces<\/strong> to help keeps its teams Agile. Here are some of their recommendations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n