Agile Transformation
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Leveraging Change
- Embrace progressive elaboration
- Conduct just-in-time sprint planning
- Regularly groom the backlog
- Reassess risks frequently
- Rethink and reevaluate scope as needed
- Perform visual reappraisal to track progress
- Respond swiftly to change
- Value-driven delivery: vision realized through incremental progress
- No one starts from scratch; build upon prior work
- Ship real, functional results regularly
- Iterative improvements: reviews and retrospectives
- Maintain a consistent delivery cadence
- Crunch time conflicts with agile principles
- Crunching is a sign of poor agility
- Rework is more damaging than wasted effort
- Agility is not about speed, but versatility
- Crunching leads to lower productivity, quality, and morale
- Limit work in progress for better focus
- Theory Y: teams are intrinsically motivated
- Theory X: teams rely on external motivation
- Motivate individuals by aligning vision with results, talent, and challenges
- Effective leaders shield teams from distractions and provide resources
- Agile teams self-organize and reconfigure regularly
- Avoid silos: encourage cross-team collaboration
- Prioritize face-to-face communication when possible
- For remote teams: check in often, use video when in-person isn’t possible