The Agility Trends for 2021

Every company wants to be agile and, to some extent, have some sort of ad-hoc agile implemented. However, this ad-hoc agile does not bring the value that corporations are expecting to have. Mainly, it’s due to the fact that this practices and mindset did not make through the whole organization yet, staying enclosed to the development teams within the IT or R&D organization.

With the agile manifesto celebrating 20 years in 2021 it’s about the time to make the next and definitive step: Enterprise and Business Agility. This is the final frontier to achieve the expected benefits all companies are waiting for. If we link this possibility with the need to adapt to the recent changes in the market due to the 2020’s impact, this is more than a trend, but a need for survival. Together with it, many more lean-agile practices are in need in today’s organizations to speed-up the adoption rate and start realizing the expected value.

No one could predict what happened during the last year (one might say otherwise), it was a real game changer for many companies around the world. I’ve got to know many companies that had to let go about 40% of their workforce due to the pandemics, but still having to keep the previously contracted deliveries to their customers. Other companies have been going through a “Digital Transformation” over the last years, but when the crisis hit, they’ve seen…