What Do Agile Teams Need to Know?
Joshua Barnes
I help organizations, leadership, and teams improve value delivery with agile, lean, hybrid, and value stream management.
I asked several people covering a range of experience concerning an agile way of working in a few organizations in different industries what they felt agile teams needed to know.?It was all very informal, just a way to get some insights and gather my thoughts before discussing @Al Shalloway and @Steve Tendon in our weekly UN-Common Sense live stream.?
What I gleaned from asking that simple question was something I did not expect, and on reflection, I think it may stem from the word “agile” team.?The majority of the replies I received centered on knowing things related to a timeboxed approach.?Whether “sprint” or “iteration,” almost all the replies were in the realm of timeboxes.?Few responses included flow - a lean-approach.?Did your first thoughts focus on an iterative approach and things to know that would support success when looking at the title??Please share your thoughts in a comment.
The item at the top of my list of what agile teams need to know – they have options. So often, the first steps as an individual and as a team member center around a mostly pre-defined path to an agile way of working.?For good or bad, Scrum and the Scrum Guide are the vast majority of where most start.?Unfortunately for many, they never have the opportunity or seek out other options.
Al, Steve, and I, along with those watching the live stream sharing, had excellent items.?The following is a selection of a few that I felt are a great starting point for anyone to reflect on or discuss with others:
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3 年Joshua Barnes, really good read and important points, looking forward to listening to the discussion. I believe the main comment I see in your summary is: "Unfortunately for many, they never have the opportunity or seek out other options." You relate it to SCRUM vs Lean, but I would expand it further and say that most project managers practicing in a predictive context never had the opportunity to experience agile and vice versa. Note that I said "practice", not "read on", and sadly, this has created an "us and them" mentality on both sides. If I had one suggestion to make, it would be that every process focused project manager should work on an agile team at least once and every agile team member should work on a predictive project at least once before they berate each other. There is much to learn and to experience in both areas and the more understanding we will gain, the better we will be able to choose our WoW. ??