From the course: Hiring and Developing Your Future Workforce
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Why you need to be an adaptive manager
From the course: Hiring and Developing Your Future Workforce
Why you need to be an adaptive manager
- In a rapidly changing world, work is increasingly becoming organized into projects, and those projects are increasingly designed with shorter and shorter time frames to allow teams to become more agile. In a slower-moving time, with greater visibility about the future, it might have been possible to determine a set of projects goals and then take months or years to complete it. Of course, there are big projects that do require years and years to complete. But adaptive managers need to work with their teams to figure out how to break even long-term initiatives into a series of shorter, more focused projects. This increases the team's ability to continually respond to new information and to reliably deliver what customers and other stakeholders need. Turns out, we can learn a lot from software developers, who have used a set of practices known as agile development. Developers treat long initiatives as a series of mini projects, sometimes lasting as short as a week, which allows them…
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