Tag: Teams
What’s Wrong With a Typical Agile Team Explanation
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Many articles and training courses on Agile often use an image or video of a racing team’s pit stop as an example of effective teamwork. In a matter of seconds, a team of mechanics swiftly changes a race car tires. This procedure, known as a pit stop, seems to perfectly…
Velocity and Capacity in Scrum
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Velocity and capacity are important metrics in Agile project management, particularly in Scrum. They provide insights into a team’s productivity and help with planning and forecasting. However, when it comes to a new Scrum team, calculating velocity can be challenging since there is no historical data to base it on.…
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…
We Need More Teams! Is It True?
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We are often approached with requests to help create cross-functional self-organized development teams. When dealing with such requests, it is important to understand the underlying problem the client truly wants to solve.
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…
Does a Self-Organized Team Really Need a Team Lead Role?
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The role of a team lead in software development has been a topic of focus for me lately. I have been exploring the purpose, goals, and responsibilities associated with this position. Additionally, I have been pondering the value that a team lead brings to a team and whether this value…
