To implement a project management approach that facilitates and enhances communication and collaborative working relationships between TDF and Zebra Growth.
By tailoring the traditional Agile project management approach for this project, both TDF and Zebra Growth will see an increase in collaborative behaviour, more efficient and effective communication between teams, greater autonomy resulting in faster decision making, and will allow project owners and team leaders to manage by exception, thus affording them more time to spend on strategic level tasks.
Project outcomes will be delivered on time, within the budget, and to the agreed level of quality.
In an Agile environment, budget, quality and timelines are considered non-variables. If any of these are at risk of exceeding the agreed level of contingency set, then lower priority deliverables will be descoped to relieve pressure.
To ensure that the team know what deliverables are to be descoped, and in what order, Zebra Growth will update TDF regularly with prioritised outcomes and task list throughout the duration of the project. This will be updated and uploaded to Monday.com board and will be made readily available to the project owner and team involved, and will form the basis from which decisions are made.
A key principle in an Agile framework is that decision-making should happen at the lowest responsible level. Responsible is the operative word. By allowing all members of the project team to exercise autonomous decision-making, the project team remains nimble.
Decisions should be fast and effective, with problems only being escalated when necessary.
Questions to ask yourself when confronted with an issue:
If the answer is no to any of the above questions, then the issue should be escalated to the next level of management.
By empowering all within the team to exercise responsible decision-making, senior team members will not become involved in lower-level, day-to-day minutiae. Only when a decision cannot be made without the involvement of senior team members, should they be asked to step in.