Upskill your workforce with Scrum
We all know that the response to the pandemic has fast-forwarded digital adoption. One result of this “digitalization at scale and velocity” is massive skill shifts. The shift in skill needs was already a challenge, but more than 58% of workforces report skill transformations since the onset of the pandemic.
Even before the pandemic, companies had to keep up with technological changes and find talent with the right skills to stay ahead of the competition. Future-proofing remains a necessity during difficult times.
If teams are reduced or budgets are cut, there’s still a need to deliver projects and advance major programs. Staying focused on remaining agile and innovative is more critical than ever. There is a long-term strategic advantage for those who embrace disruptions as an opportunity.
Organizations that continued to prioritize innovation through the 2009 financial crisis outperformed the market average by more than 30%, for example.
As noted, keeping pace with the speed and scale of technical and workplace transformation was already a tall order for companies before the pandemic.
The need to respond to the pandemic sped up digital adoption by as much as five years.
When organizations ensure that their employees are ready to pivot and adapt as needed to accelerating and unpredictable change, they will be better positioned to come out ahead of the competition.
As the skills needed in the workplace change, skill attainment must continue. Executives responding to the 2021 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends survey identified “the ability of their people to adapt, reskill, and assume new roles” as the top-ranked requirement to navigate future disruptions successfully.
This includes acquiring not only new skills but more agile skills, as many as 10% more skills year-over-year for a single job. At the same time, employees must replace old skills with new ones. Over 30% of the skills required three years ago will soon be obsolete, according to Gartner.
Today’s employees must be agile and ready to constantly upskill in technical areas as well as in their specific functional roles. They get there through sustained, organization-wide learning programs and a culture that supports learning.
Why Scrum?
Scrum is the opportunity to have an impact on people’s lives (at work and a lot of times in your personal life) because you will be focusing on continuous improvement.
Sometimes people forget that continuous improvement includes happiness, creating a safe environment where people can have fun at work, and making sure that people matter and their voices get heard.
Why Scrum for your Business?
Because Scrum is designed to deal with:
- Inconstancy,
- Uncertainty,
- Complexity, and
- Ambiguity, through empiricism.
Scrum provides not just awareness of what the team and individuals on the team are working on, but not only that, it is the transparency of whether the product of the team’s work is working and effective.
Efficiency is a vital consideration if you want to work through an iterative or incremental product development process, something that has been possible through Scrum workflow for over two decades now.
It is because, while the Waterfall strategy remains pivotal in many aspects of workflow, it does not bring about a strong emphasis on quality at every stage of a software or product development.
It is why, over the years, the Scrum framework has become a darling to not only developers but also many other professionals in start-ups such as marketers and researchers.
For example, packaging a marketing message wouldn’t be possible without factoring in a need for focus group meetings that put together a working idea (brand story), including working out a formula for testing final products.
So, how great it would be if you can start implementing Scrum in your business today?
Why you must involve Scrum in your business?
- Easy decision-making: Scrum makes it possible to prioritize vital backlogs. You are, therefore, assured of the top-quality and near-risk-free deliverable at the final stage.
- It is an ideal strategy for businesses that want to hit the ground running with higher returns on investments after product launching.
- Error Minimizer — with Scrum, the fact that each sprint is subject to review before final testing minimizes errors.
- Align towards the Product Vision — Building a foundation of trust with your team is key to making sure you can get them to align around a shared vision of where your business is going.
- Common language — create a common language in your team and reduce the conflict/confusion that might arise.
- Get rid of micromanagement — Scrum can help the team through this discipline of tight-loop inspection and adaptation, rather than feel a need to micromanage work or output.
In any type of business, you don’t want to make costly mistakes when the list of new features becomes too much to implement, thus, you also need this approach to create cross-functional teams.
Introducing Scrum for Business Course
This course is about a system which helps you to work a lot faster in a lot shorter time, increase your working quality, be more efficient and make a lot fewer errors. All this will help your business to get one step closer to its goal and become successful.
I am not saying that you cannot be successful without Scrum. But, once you finish this course, you will realize that all the good ideas that you might had, Scrum already had 20 years before. Despite all of the frustrations, you will experience empirical decisions making, and you will know to create communication pathways to bring people together and address problems.
And then, you will suddenly find evidence pointing to the importance of employee happiness and morale, aligning people around common goals, and letting teams creatively solve their problems.
You will fall in love with the idea.
What you’ll learn
- How to be successful in delivering products and services that meet the demands and needs of a fast-moving market?
- Build valuable products and services for paying customers using Scrum Framework.
- Respond quickly and effectively to all forms of change to deliver maximum value to your business and customers.
- Manage everything that matters in an adaptive, customer-centric way.
- Lead and manage team members toward their business goals.
- Share members’ successes and failures with others so that we all can learn from each other…
Key takeaways
- How does Scrum help to focus on doing what truly matters?
- “Done” in entrepreneurship — self-accountability checklist.
- How do the Scrum events help to switch accountabilities in a team?
- Practical ways the Scrum framework has helped entrepreneurs.
- Once your team finishes the course, you will get a sense of agility and you will have all the tools you need to implement Scrum for Business into your workflow, as well as how it can help you.
Whether you’re a business founder who’s trying to ship as quickly as you can or you’re a more established business owner who wants to find a way to make sense of all the projects you’re juggling, Scrum for Business can help!
In this course, you will learn about Scrum, particularly how it would come in handy for your business.
Business ideas can be hard to implement as a whole without a Scrum approach. It helps puts every little detail into perspective.
