Leaders must ensure team members are part of an organization's mission. They must build and ensure the team that the work they are doing is needed by the world. Their work means something to others. The good their work will do to the world will strengthen their motivation to work. Leaders must reward and develop skills in team members ensuring they are good at improving and contributing to the work with passion and loyalty. Fair pay without any discrimination will again help team members to develop the team more. While applying ikigai team members must remember some points which are as below, Ikigai is not only about work and money related but it involves dreams, health, family, spiritual belief, and many more. As other things are important work is also important in ikigai. Every factor has its value. Ikigai always prefers having more emphasis on mastery, sharing, immersion, process, and excellence instead of targeting only a single purpose. Ikigai due to its element of evolving with time inclines and suits more towards the agile framework. It considers that the purpose can change with time and that not working for long must not adhere.

1. Making Agile Work with
Ikigai

3. Japan has provided many useful concepts for the business world from their way of
living a content and happy life. Some of the concepts they have given to the world
are ikigai, kaizen, wabi-sabi etcetera. One of these is ikigai which can help agile
teams to work with more motivation and efficiency. In today’s topic, we will discuss
what ikigai is, how it helps businesses, and how agile can benefit from ikigai.
When you know why you are being, you feel more content and motivated.
When agile teams are questioned what are they being for? Mostly all the teams
are unable to answer it. Even if some answer they will say it is for delivery of
product or services. But then does every team be dissolved after successful
delivery? Even though there is continuously updating and addition of features is
there still the reason for being a team should always be greater than just delivery
or shipping.

4. In Japanese iki means life and gai mean value. It simply states what is your
purpose or value in life that inspires and motivates you every day to wake up and
keep going. When this concept of ikigai is used in teams they state that teams
must know and understand the purpose of being a team.
Even though agile teams are already trusting and bonded well together but still
motivation and inspiration to come to work and put in the best effort requires some
more cause. By giving this cause to agile teams with ikigai any leader can help
the team inspire and give meaning to their life and work.

6. Agile with its complete understanding itself gives an explanation how
what agile teams should be like. In many texts and processes agile gives the
message of what a team's values should be, and how they should consist of a
shared vision in a team and organization. But many teams without understanding
the concept, why’s, and roles of teams go into transformation. But without this
foundation, any agile team cannot be agile completely. When agile teams start
ikigai concept they can get answers to the following.
What’s their passion?
· What mission do they have?
· Are they following their calling?
· What’s their truthful profession which is beyond their job?
Answering this question by team members will help them develop the team’s
ikigai.

7. So when teams must go for ikigai?
During the formation of agile teams or the dawn of a fresh project is
best to go with ikigai. Even though these are the best time to go with
ikigai, it is a tool that can be used any time in a team.
Ikigai consists mainly of four circles that overlap each other for
indicating the relation between two different factors.
The circle's outermost parts involve love, need, earning abilities, and
qualities. The circle where love and need overlap gives mission, needs
and earning abilities gives vocation, love and qualities overlap gives
passion and earning abilities and quality overlap gives profession. This
is the second inner round. Combining all these factors provides us with
the ikigai or life purpose.

8. Leaders must ensure team members are part of an organization's mission. They
must build and ensure the team that the work they are doing is needed by the
world. Their work means something to others. The good their work will do to the
world will strengthen their motivation to work. Leaders must reward and develop
skills in team members ensuring they are good at improving and contributing to the
work with passion and loyalty. Fair pay without any discrimination will again
help team members to develop the team more.
While applying ikigai team members must remember some points which are as
below,

9. Ikigai is not only about work and money related but it involves dreams, health,
family, spiritual belief, and many more. As other things are important work is also
important in ikigai. Every factor has its value.
Ikigai always prefers having more emphasis on mastery, sharing, immersion,
process, and excellence instead of targeting only a single purpose.
Ikigai due to its element of evolving with time inclines and suits more towards
the agile framework. It considers that the purpose can change with time and that
not working for long must not adhere.

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