Andrea Jones introduces Executagility, a model measuring how well organizations execute their most important projects. The framework has four pillars: alignment, available time, competence, and structure. She explains how small-to-medium businesses can build execution capability on a fractional basis and previews an assessment tool coming next.
Alignment; Available time; Competence; Structure
Hi, I'm Andrea Jones and thank you for watching our series on Execute Agility. Again, Execute Agility is your organization's ability to execute your most important projects consistently over time. The four pillars of Executagility are alignment, available time, competence, and structure. Again, alignment is making sure that everyone in the current period so the current quarter knows what is the most important project work to execute, why that is important, who is responsible as the sponsor, the project manager and the team, and what the definition of done is for the current quarter. So when the certain chunk needs to get done by the end of the quarter, available time is considering their day to day work. All of the team members you've assigned, do they have enough time to execute the most important project? Have you overloaded anyone? Is it realistic for competence? Do they have the technical skills required to do the work? Or if they don't, but they're willing to try and learn, have you given them a bit more time to do that as well? And for structure, how to use an Agile Sprint Lite methodology to keep those projects running and to be able to measure the work that's being done and improve it every two weeks, then roll it up, get it back to the sponsor for the next quarter's prioritization and new alignment. All of these things are very important to ensure you have strong executagility and together they comprise the executagility model. How to prioritize work all the way through, getting it done and repeat that over and over again, insourcing that into your own company. Most small medium businesses do not have a project management office, a department whose entire job consists of prioritizing projects and fitting them into the roadmap, and preparing teams and training them and executing the work, managing it, measuring it, escalating decisions and making sure things are on track. In small medium business, that's not the first hire. So using Execute Agility and that model is how you can insource that work on a fractional basis. We're going to talk more about how to insource that, but the next series really will be on how to know where you're at. Depending on today. There's really no KPI for your executagility. Where do you go to look for your organization's ability to execute your most important projects consistently over time? It's not on your cash flow statement, it's not on your balance sheet, it's not your productivity because that is how you run your current operations. We have developed an assessment to measure your Execute agility score and we're excited to share that with you. Once you know where you're at today, you can work to improve it and maintain it consistently. Over time, it becomes your leading indicator for being able to get this important project work done in your organization. A lagging indicator would be results. Once the results are there, you're done with the project, or at least you've gotten somewhere down the road. A leading indicator is what you want. You have a plan, you want to execute it. What is your score? What is your ability to do that? The Execut Agility assessment will tell you. If you can't wait for the next round of videos, go to execute agility all1word.com it's like executability but Execute Agility and click on Assessment. You could also go to andreajonesconsulting.com click on Execute Agility right there in the center of the front page which will take you to the Execute Agility page and again to the assessment. Thanks so much for watching.
