What is Agile in the enterprise

The fundamentals of agility in hardware

The Agile Factory is an agile-based physical product development method that integrates Lean, Waterfall and other practices to create a highly effective and humane creative laboratory that can rapidly convert ideas into valuable and successful products.

The essence of this Agile methodology lies in the following 13 Fundamentals

1. Elasticity

Be flexible, in order to use the practices that are best suited to the context and situation, adapting the plan to changes as they occur.

2. Craftsmanship

Make manual and thinking skills work together to create an excellent product.

3. Modularity

Break down the product at several levels, relying on modular architecture.

4. Many-Sidedness

Consider several points of view for development, because there are multiple and sometimes conflicting perspectives, including the perspective of time.

5. Exploration

Just like an explorer, let whatever emerges guide you in the next steps, because product development is complex.

6. Value

Be guided by the value you bring to your customers, looking for the quality that they really need.

7. Gradualness

Develop in stages, retracing your steps when necessary, and consolidate to continue in an iterative and incremental way.

8. Courage

Dare with method, otherwise you will develop a banal product.

9. Digitization

Check your ideas as soon as possible using digital templates.

10. Pretotyping

Test your ideas promptly, by building pretotypes to make sure you are building the right product.

11. Experimentation

Validate your ideas, your products or their pretotypes in the field, i.e., on the market.

12. Cooperation

Work towards a shared goal by listening to the operatives.

13. Pace

Support your people in improving the pace and quality of work: this is the only way to continue to generate value.