{"id":341,"date":"2020-04-08T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectmanagementacademy.net\/resources\/?p=341"},"modified":"2021-07-07T14:07:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T19:07:25","slug":"covid-19-and-agile-are-strange-bed-fellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectmanagementacademy.net\/resources\/blog\/covid-19-and-agile-are-strange-bed-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 and Agile Are Strange Bed\u00a0Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

COVID-19<\/a> is like that car accident just up ahead which you know you shouldn\u2019t be focusing on while driving, but which draws the attention of all around it. After doing a number of articles related to the pandemic, I\u2019d planned to write about something completely different, but as my weekly blogging time drew near I realized that there was (at least) one more topic I needed to write about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\"strangebedfellows\"I\u2019ve often said that one of the bigger challenges with agile transformations is the costs of doing nothing (different) today is cheaper than those of changing things so that they will be much better a year or two down the line. This is especially true when you look at companies which operate in markets which are near monopolies or oligopolies as they might still succeed in spite of themselves. Implementing transformations such companies can be orders of magnitude more difficult than in those companies who need to always be more efficient and effective than their competitors in order to survive.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But all that has changed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Operating budgets have been slashed, companies have frozen hiring, supply chains are under such heavy demand that materials may be unavailable when needed and staff availability is even more unpredictable. Regulations are being introduced at lightning speed, fast-tracking public policy changes in hours or days which normally would take months to push through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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