Tag: Continuous Improvement
We Are Tired of Meetings
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This is the second part of the story about the role of meetings in agile approaches. In the previous part, we mainly talked with management about value delivery and its prevalence over utilization. We discussed the importance of self-assessment by regularly asking the question, “Is the thing we are currently…
Two Useful Things to Balance the Team’s Focus
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This short note – a summary of long discussion on whether an Agile leader should focus on continuous improvement all the time or whether it is sometimes important to stop and maintain stability and predictability.
One Important Question to Diagnose Your Scrum Implementation.
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“We have a Scrum team (or several teams), and we would like to understand how effectively these people are working.” We often come across such requests. Agile practices often emerge within companies from a grassroots initiative and develop over time based on their own understanding. In such situations, the desire…
Breaking Through Barriers Successfully: How Teams Progress from Level 0 to Level 3 of Awareness Development
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A significant part of the diagnostic process is the audit of selected teams. And unfortunately at this stage it sometimes turns out that teams as meant in Agile approaches don’t really exist. People brought together won’t become a team just by being brought together. In our methodology we distinguish four…
