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With the most recent technology-led revolution, now we have gone from the Age of Oil and Mass Manufacturing, the place work was principally repetitive and knowable, to the Age of Digital, the place work is generally distinctive, time-sensitive and unpredictable. Like going from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age, a brand new technique of manufacturing creates new expectations. So as to survive and thrive, there’s a want for companies to undertake methods of working suited to the brand new technique of manufacturing.
Within the Age of Digital, each organisation is a software program organisation, instantly or not directly, and there are few circumstances the place worth supply will not be in a roundabout way underpinned by info expertise. For instance, authorities businesses, universities, well being amenities, manufactured merchandise, distribution and monetary providers all leverage software program to resolve human wants. Whereas in a manufacturing facility 1,500 automobiles may be produced day by day, one automobile a minute, repeating the identical processes again and again, within the Age of Digital, you don’t write the identical software program 1000’s of instances. Software program is written as soon as after which runs 1000’s of instances.
This new technique of worth technology requires a totally new strategy to methods of working. This is applicable whether or not you’re in a service/product design, course of enchancment, operations or software program engineering function and whether or not you’re a senior chief or a junior chief. Agile is certainly one of many attainable practices, together with Lean, DevOps and extra; nonetheless, it’s not the ‘finish’ in itself. Enchancment might be elusive – organisations might be ‘doing Agile’ and never seeing any enchancment of their outcomes
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