Implementing Vima
The agile method for business teams and personal agility
Key Points
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Vima is an Agile method (or framework) specifically designed to support business teams and personal agility. Vima's key differentiator features are calendar integration, multi-backlog support and catalyst leadership.
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Vima is trying to solve the problem of identifying a set of useful patterns and ideas when coaching business teams in the context of an Agile transformation. Business teams have unique characteristics that distinguish them from product development teams and standard work teams.
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Vima combines Visual Management with good ideas from Scrum and GTD to create an innovative approach. You learn to organize your daily work effectively, without losing sight of the bigger picture and staying flexible. It scales down to personal level and all the way up to enterprise agility.
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You can use Vima with any team where Scrum and Kanban are not a great fit. For example, any environment with multiple products or projects, different types of work streams, date constrained work such as recurring tasks and deadlines, and multiple dependencies.
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Example teams include most internal departments such as admin teams, marketing, sales, procurement, finance, legal, compliance, HR...; most core business processes, whatever industry you are in; leadership teams, small companies, non-profits, and personal productivity and family management.