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5 Ways to stay agile in a growing organization

about.gitlab.com / 11 June 2019

1. Make quick, but thoughtful decisions: his is the fundamental thing that allows startups to be competitive against dominant players in a market: It’s using your resources more efficiently and moving faster than anyone else. (…) If it’s easily revertible and makes something better, ship it.

2. Hire the right people: An Agile mentality lets you deliver incremental, low-risk value to customers, allowing you to get feedback or pivot with minimal investment. Accept mistakes: Not every problem should lead to a new process to prevent them. Additional processes make all actions more inefficient and a mistake only affects one.

3. Keep teams small and focused: Team members desperately want to be contributing meaningful changes on time and a reduction in scope lets them focus again on a more specific cross-section of the product, shifting attention away from the larger team discussions that may not be specific to a product area.

4. Allow teams to experiment with their own processes

5. Make sure everyone is on the same page