Always Agile with Qontext™
Things were simple when Scrum was conceived as a holistic approach to product development. Cross-functional teams covering the distance as a unit, like a rugby scrummage. However, why do most teams get bogged down by process when they claim to practice scrum? The problem with today's scrum complexity is the use of traditional enterprise tools and processes for a social activity.
If you stop to ponder over the underlying principles of scrum, and agile methodologies, it will be clear that they rely heavily on activities that are people-oriented and social — interactions, collaboration, flexibility and morale.
Why don't we use social tools for an activity that is inherently social? A democratic social platform over which groups can collaborate on focused goals — sharing knowledge, activities, progress and thoughts. Why wait for the next standup meeting to discuss the impediments with the scrum master? You could just post updates and roadblocks regarding your tasks to this platform.
How we Scrum
At Imaginea, we have a way to make scrumming a social activity. It's called Always Agile with Qontext — the right combination of agile methodologies and collaboration tools.
Qontext is a democratic engagement platform that brings engineers, designers, product managers, and consumers together to collaborate and converge on meeting customer goals. So that we can maintain agility among remote teams while offering continuous improvements and adaptive processes.
We have found that using Qontext — an enterprise collaboration platform — to be highly beneficial to our scrum teams, helping them remain fluid and focused at the same time. It has proved to be effective and engaging for activities ranging from knowledge sharing to gauging morale. Larger teams were also able to overcome the challenge of communicating across scrums — co-located and otherwise.
Our aim is to offer open and collaborative support of customer goals. Thus, at Imaginea, processes supplement your strategy rather than dominating it.
