The best practice agile hybrid framework STAGILE® is not only successfully applied to assure focus on strategy and execution of strategy with STAGILE® Management  for agile management teams and to enable effective and efficient project execution with STAGILE® Projects for project teams but also to break up the shopfloor routine, set focus and unleash employee commitment with STAGILE® Operations for operation teams. Let us briefly describe how this can be achieved.

STAGILE® Operations is applied directly at the shopfloor and can be seen as an advancement of shopfloor management. Shopfloor management and other lean elements are nowadays widely applied in the production environment and have a great impact to make production teams more efficient and more effective.

Nevertheless, the endless routine of shopfloor management also comprises the danger of getting too much of a standard routine. The endless routine could get “boring” and teams and individuals may potentially stay well within their comfort zone. This is where the agile elements used in the STAGILE® framework can help to break up standard procedures by introducing Sprint cycles with a clear focus, pulling teams and individuals out of the endless routine and out of their comfort zone.

The routine is broken up with clearly defined Sprint goals. The goals not only contain typical production goals like produced units but also improvement goals to be reached with the Sprint. This could be process optimizations, introduction of new equipment or the phase-in of new products and many more. To assure that there is not only talk about optimization and improvements the goals are actively integrated into the Sprints and it’s made sure that the optimizations and improvements are executed and leveraged on. The comfort zone has to be left behind since the planning process within the Sprint cycles is very people oriented. Planning is done by the one and only experts, the production employees themselves. This completely changes the engagement of the production employees and unleashes employee commitment.

In addition to the above, STAGILE® Operations enhances the planning process and the cyclical meetings with a focus on lessons learned, risk attack and opportunity leverage – all driven by the Scrum Master role, which is strongly focused on removing obstacles which could endanger the Sprint’s success and assuring necessary decisions are taken and not delegated into endless loops.

We see STAGILE® Operations as the logical next step to improve production performance.

Are you interested to break up the routine and unleash commitment on your shopfloor too? Send us a message – we look forward to hearing from you!