Agile Environment

The Agile environment is an organizational culture that nurtures and facilitates the Agile approach to project management. Such a work environment creates and supports processes that push teams and businesses to achieve their objectives faster and more reliably. This allows companies that establish an Agile environment to be more flexible, creative, and open to change and innovation. 

An Agile environment creates and supports a working culture that facilitates teamwork toward a common goal. It incorporates the value and importance of individuals and their collaboration. Agile processes encourage team play, working to achieve quality, and acceptance of the inevitability of frequent change throughout the project.

To establish such an environment, a manager should turn to the Agile approach. It’s a set of values and principles for breaking large projects into smaller functional pieces that can be developed and implemented quickly. This is also called iterative software development. Even though there exist many different practices that fall under the agile category, it’s the behavior and culture that stay the same.

Most modern businesses acknowledge the usefulness of this methodology and strive to go agile themselves. The greatest benefit that they’re yearning for is the ability to deliver quality products to their clients faster than their competitors. But that's far from being the only benefit of the Agile work environment!

The very design of KeepSolid Goals is meticulously crafted to encourage the Agile environment: 

• Keeping an overarching Objective as the center of your project keeps your team focused on what’s important
• Tying Key Results (sub-goals that are instrumental in the success) to the Objective
• Defining specific tasks as part of each particular Key Result
• Presenting your whole project using visual tools like mind maps and timeline to make it clearer, easier to grasp, and more manageable
• Delivering automatic reports and notifications to keep managers and stakeholders updated on the current state of the project and offer them insights on what works and what needs to be fixed

• Processes are iterative, incremental, and evolutionary. At each iteration, a cross-functional team is involved that covers all functions, from planning and analysis to development and testing.
• Efficient and face-to-face communication is encouraged. Team members are situated together to facilitate face-to-face communication and to better establish team identity.
• Your work environment has a very short feedback loop and adaptation cycle. The Agile process often includes daily stand-up - a brief session where team members discuss what tasks they did the previous day and what they intend to do today toward the goal.
• The main focus of your practices is on the quality of your products or services. Agile work environment often involves project-specific tools and techniques to improve product quality and enhance the agility of development.