Entrepreneurship with agile methodologies

• Lean: une of the most important elements of this methodology is to reduce product delivery times, improve quality and reduce price. The Lean method focuses on what is essential, what is essential. Unnecessary things that do not make a profit are eliminated. Processes are optimised, the necessary information is provided to the team and interruptions are limited.

Optimise globally and with the long term in mind.

• Optimum quality. Quality in development must be a prerequisite. The aim is to correct any flaws that may appear at some point in time. 
• Constant learning. From start to finish, it is a constant learning process. The most important thing is to accept any changes to the original plan to be undertaken.
• React quickly. Rapid and quality implementation is a differentiating element in the face of any competition.
• Constant improvement. With the focus on people and product construction processes without focusing on product improvement alone. 
• The working team. Motivate and support the team by making them feel important.

The following advice is based on the experience of entrepreneurs and mentors who have supported entrepreneurs using agile methods. 

Lessons and criteria for the use of agile methodologies:

What lessons can we learn from the use of agile methods and how do these lessons influence the criteria that we should apply in order to create companies or develop new products or services.

COLLABORATION:

Entrepreneurs must learn to collaborate, since, agile methods are based on in fact in collaborative work and self-organised workwhich means that there is no need for someone to be the boss; not even to lead the team. We are talking about a paradigm shift that empowers the team. Everyone is a boss and everyone is a manager. And everyone shares responsibility. 

LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE LEARNINGS FROM THE COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT IN AGILE METHODS:

1. Let us have a common vision: the vision brings the team together and sets the path to reach the final destination. The vision it is necessary to and share it. There is no need to pivoting involves a change of vision has to be seen as a change of strategy. A change of mind if it is a change of vision. Pivot is adopt another strategy within the same vision.
2. Let's have a focus: sIt is important not to take on new tasks until the previous one has been completed. Multitasking should be avoided and, as with vision, the focus should be shared as in a rugby melee.
   1. When building your product or creating your business with agile methods keep the focus, one thing at a time, always on important and prioritised aspects.
3. Let us have confidence in the team: it is necessary to take on that people does the best he knows how and to the best of his ability. The trust is the agile methods and their common vision and focus. 
   1. It is very difficult to build it and very easy to lose it! That is why it must be built into the team from start to finish and, when new people join the team, they must do so in the same context. Its ingredients are commitment, equal communication for all and transparency.
4. Learning to ask for help: et is essential that each team member knows what he or she knows and what he or she does not know. They should know how far they can go and at what point they should turn to others for help. Being able to ask for help is an additional skill required in the use of agile methods and involves being able to explain to others what you really need.
   1. It is not mandatory that the help you need comes from other members of the team. It can also come from outside. When you are in the process of developing a new business, it is good to have a mentor, not as someone who gives you closed solutions, but someone who helps you question things and induces you to reflect.
5. Learning to be a team player: un team consists of people with different disciplines and different points of view. It is essential to give it cohesion and, for this, it is necessary to share emotional moments that unite. But these moments are not necessarily linked to the team and its objectives. They can also be moments outside of work, and these moments must be shared. And these moments can occur both inside and outside the business. A team is more than just work, so we need to know how we treat the people in the team. Cohesion, how they overcome obstacles.

THE DELIVERY

1. What do we deliver and to whom? People want solutions to their problems or their needs. They only see sense in products and services if they provide them with solutions in some sense. That is why products and services are repositories of value.
   1. People buy drills only because they make holes. Moreover, few people are likely to be able to justify the unit cost of every single hole they drill in their house. 
   2. Value is a subjective perception and there are different categories of value.
      1. Functional values: are faster, or cheaper.
      2. Social and emotional values: They make me feel good, they take away my fear, I feel represented, I identify with those causes. 
   3. You need to know why they are buying your product. And deliver the value they ask for.
2. Learning to prioritise: it is a fundamental complement to focus!!!. If I decide to focus on doing important things one after the other, I will have to prioritise.
   1. There are many prioritisation techniques that are given by the agile methods themselves:
      1. Critical or uncertain priority.
      2. Impact and novelty.
      3. In pairs or ranges.
   2. Prioritising also means saying no to many things.
3. Learning to design through experimentation: agile methods promote empiricism or, in other words, they induce the application of the scientific method with its more than three hundred years of history. Experimentation must be assumed as a mindset when doing things. Create, prototype, test, iterate and re-create is the circle in which experimentation in the field of agile methods moves. Experimenting means finding where the value lies for the customer and that is what the entrepreneur should be concerned with rather than thinking about a complete or perfect product.
   1. The greatest enemies in the development of a new business, a new product or service are not the competition or the collectors.. The great adversaries are unconscious incompetence, things you don't know that you don't know, and many of them can be very important and have a great influence on your development.
   2. The second front is the things you think you know but end up discovering are not true. You see a reality that doesn't exist, which is very hard because it forces you to revise your views. One of the skills of agile methods is the acceptance of error.