Agility explained simply with an example:

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Instead, introducing agile methods usually means a lot of hard work at first. After all, this demanding task requires good organizational and management skills. Employees must first be properly supported and accompanied in developing self-organization and then "let go" at the right time. As a leader, you then have to find the right balance between control and trust and still be available as a moderator.

But: Once agility has been functionally integrated into a system, the measures night clubs and bars email list often quickly bear fruit. After all, agile methods are characterized by visualized work and a transparent workflow (including clear allocation of roles).


To give you a better understanding, you can imagine agility like a cake at a party (see Figure 2).


Fig. 2: Agility as cake at a party, Source: Lindner (2020)
Translated into the world of work, the cake symbolizes a customer's ideas that can be divided into many small projects (like pieces of cake). You will see for yourself that it makes little sense to assign all the pieces of cake (or projects) to a single person. Instead, you will cut the cake into larger pieces (formulated requirements - so-called stories). Since these work packages (or pieces of cake) are still too big, you will divide them again into (bite-sized) pieces (individual tasks). In this way, you set up a kind of buffet for your employees that they can help themselves to at any time. The individual tasks are processed one after the other until the cake has been completely distributed (or the project has been finished).