The agroindustrial complex of Russia is the advanced branch of the economy due to the favorable market environment developed after the imposition of sanctions against some food importers. Such situation promoted the growth of large agricultural holdings. However, the variability in markets requires the measures for prediction possible directions for economic development and preparation of enterprises. In this case, business mechanisms of agricultural holdings adaptation implementing these measures fail to achieve the optimum effect that makes topical the issues of their improvement.

Using the example of large agricultural holding of Krasnodar region, the paper analyzes the peculiarities of organization and management structure; gives the minimum required list of functions of business mechanism of adaptation, which is compared with the mechanism actually implemented within the whole agricultural holding and at one of its subsidiary enterprises; detects the disadvantages of this mechanism; analyzes the weak points requiring the adjustment and suggests the directions for the improvement.  

The author proves the application of the project flexible management tool – Scrumban technique based on Agile principles and intended for the development and implementation of the adaptation and development projects, which will allow the agricultural holding to react quickly and flexibly to the changes in the economic environment. The application of Scrumban technique within the “Parus Agro Group” agricultural holding allowed designing and implementing the missing as well as improving the existing elements of business mechanism of adaptation of the enterprise; developing the adaptation plan for the holding’s subsidiary enterprise to adapt to the market adverse change to improve the efficiency of its activity; mastering the methods of adaptation projects development and the methods of selection, formation and organization of cross-functional project teams’ activity.