Time-Boxed Decision Making — Agile Management Hack №1

The new focus of management in the age of agile is to empower people to self-organize, foster a culture of collaboration, and deliver value often and fast. There is a diversity of management practices and tools that can help organizations to achieve their aspired level of agility. Among them are some agile management hacks that share three common features:

· They have the potential to start a chain reaction of changes toward more agility.

· They can be set up in three weeks.

· They can produce effect within three months, be it in teams, projects, operations, or any area targeted by the hacks.

Here in this article, the focus is the hack of time-boxed decision making.

Making a decision often involves long discussions and elaborate analyses that frequently result in delay and disengagement. In fact, over-analysis is number one mistake made by large organizations when it comes to decision making. To keep up with the rapid pace of change, agile managers must master the art of fast decision making. It’s not so difficult to implement this hack if you just stick to the key points.

Key points of effective fast decision making:

- Measure the cost of delaying the decision making versus the risk of making the…