From the course: Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team
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Thinking like an agile team
From the course: Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team
Thinking like an agile team
- You should start to think of agile as a shift in the team's mindset. The team should be viewing their work in a way that's much different than before. Only after the team changes this mindset can they drive to greater efficiency and productivity. Any team can change the name of their roles in meetings, but an agile team changes the way they think about these things. That's why you need to change everyone's mindset from the very beginning. Otherwise, the team will settle back into the way they've always done things. The momentum at nearly every organization is always stay the course. Your team's mindset will be the key to whether or not your organization succeeds with agile. So when you think about agile, don't just think about the new roles and responsibilities. Instead, think about the new mindset for each role. How will each team member think about their work differently? The term agile is really just an umbrella term for several of the popular lightweight frameworks. One of the…
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