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development. Plus, at a time when our staff were looking for security, here we were taking away a huge
tool that had helped them progress – what kind of a message was this sending out? Morale was low
enough!”
An IT Project was initiated to create an online version of the development scheme, Project teams and
Business Analysts were able to work together to create value propositions for the existing scheme, distil
them to their essence and replicate the deliverables in a safe virtual space.
It may be that you paused something that used to deliver results to your business because you had to cut
your cloth accordingly. IT Project Managers and Business Analysts can help you cut your vintage cloth
with more contemporary scissors!
Getting back to normal or coming back better?
Moving forward, business agility should be less about getting back to normal and more about coming
back better and stronger than before. I shared just three ways here that IT Project leaders and business
analysts are helping to make this so.
Economist Mariana Mazzucato said it best in a recent TedTalk, “Really, my view is that we need to do
everything we can, not to go back to normal, because normal was part of the problem.”
She catalogues the issues that dogged the old normal and urged governments to rethink investments and
not to waste the opportunity that this pause offers and that is a call that we would all be wise to heed.
In the context of organisations and business structures, project teams and Business Analysts are best
placed to sense and respond rapidly to the changes in market conditions.
Business Agility is not a new thing, how we best achieve it may be changing, but those best places to
deliver it in your business are the same. If you have IT Project Management talent and Business Analysts
on your team, now is the time to call on their services and, if you don’t, now is the time to call on ours.
Sources:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90519639/the-coronavirus-recovery-is-an-opportunity-do-to-
everything-differently-not-go-back-to-normal
