Develop cross-functional, collaborative agile teams to drive success.
Accelerate
Move with speed and agility.
Definition
A productised approach to services leverages speed and agility to experiment, fail fast and iterate. Adopting an acceleration mindset paves the way for rapid growth, and the ability to learn and adapt quickly.
Speed can make it easier to iterate on products, test new ideas, and innovate based on an immediate feedback loops. This can lead to continuous improvement of services.
Good Design
A productised approach breaks projects down into small iterations or sprints. Each sprint has a fixed timeline between one to four weeks, allowing for fast development and frequent releases of the product to be tested. This approach enables teams to respond swiftly to changes or new information.
Incentivise open collaboration among different departments and teams. Cross-functional teams can be particularly effective at improving speed and agility because they bring together diverse skills and perspectives to solve problems and deliver services more quickly and flexibly.
Teams that self-organise and make decisions can eliminate delays often caused by hierarchical decision-making processes.
Related resources
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Related service principles
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