As companies grow, the agile culture of \u201cthink fast, act fast\u2019 must eventually play nicely with the anchor of sustainability. This transition can be a bit of a mind-bend and even feel like operating in two worlds, especially in the beginning.<\/p>\n
The question becomes: \u201cis it possible to integrate consistent systems and processes and still maintain the benefits of the fast-moving startup culture?\u201d\u00a0Put another way: how can you get just corporate enough to yield sustainable business and growth, while maintaining startup culture?<\/p>\n
This is possible, and it requires simple planning and tenacious leaders with a commitment to communication. As you reach a certain level of growth in your startup phase, what you create must maintain a certain standard of delivery, respond to the market, manage shifting business goals, and keep customers happy.<\/p>\n
Oddly enough, larger corporations are actually struggling with the same conversation on the other end. They are beginning to integrate agile methods into their system implementations. They are finding that their systems, processes, and traditional way of doing things is hard to maintain in agile development world. Yet they see the value, and struggle to make it work.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve worked on system implementations since 2006 and have seen the insides of a number of companies in industries varying from retail, to entertainment, to health care. On a recent project with an entertainment giant that consistently pushes the envelope, the company in question implemented a completely customized system that billions of dollars flowed through using agile methods.<\/p>\n
Having seen both sides of the equation \u2014 from small budgets to mega budgets, and small teams to huge complex teams \u2014 the underlying problem is always communication.<\/p>\n
As the tech industry evolves, customer development becomes synonymous with product development, design and function are interwoven, and engineering and marketing are integrated.<\/p>\n
In order to support this, a new way of communicating is being called forth; a dynamic communication that supports productive conversations between engineering and marketing, sales and product development and effectively captures the output into a workflow that can be implemented.<\/p>\n
If you are struggling with this problem in your startup, ask yourself these three questions:<\/p>\n
As the startups of today, you are the future IPO\u2019s of tomorrow. You have the chance to change the face and experience of \u201cCorporate America\u201d into one that inspires us as much as the fast pace, ever-changing, start-up world does. Let your growth be our economic transformation. The big companies are looking at you for clues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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