How to Apply Agile Outside Your Tech Team
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Agile management isn’t just for tech teams. Here are ten techniques that any team can use to better cope with an uncertain world.
Startups are chaos. Assumptions and plans are frequently changed, projects abandoned and ripples of destruction slowly spread. Traditional project management isn’t equipped to deal with the intense business and technical uncertainty of a startup.
That’s why agile was invented — to help teams embrace change.
So it’s ironic that agile management is rarely found outside of technical teams, even in a startup. But marketing, sales, finance, and HR teams also face uncertainty. Can they use agile techniques to adapt faster and achieve better results?
Yes, they can, and in this essay, I’ll share my top ten agile techniques that any team can use to manage chaos better.
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