An Agile Focus on Process

Has improving your Scrum team been like taking a walk to Mordor? “Not with ten thousand men could you do this. It is folly.” Tolkien, Lord of the Rings. The path seems wrought with peril. Why not just implement the ceremonies first, then focus on the intent later. Stopping there incurs the risk of slipping back into bad habits. Maybe they were acquired from the misuse of Scrum principles, or are a hodgepodge from the expediency of the moment decisions. It begs the question, how would you evaluate if your team is doing Scrum properly? The first dimension out of the six to be discussed is agile processes. That seems to be a reasonable starting point but any one of them will do. Author: Mark Haynes, https://dmarkhaynesconsulting.godaddysites.com/ Six Dimensions of Agility: Process Focused, Team Dynamics, Transparency, Customer Focused, Manageable Work, and Human Capital. Rather than creating a detailed project plan, based on an agile version of the Capability Maturity Model the intent is to help you kick off your agile maturity conversation. In this way, you can help guide your team towards a better agile footing by asking probing questions. To that end we will: Review a few definitions to establish common ground, Identify a few Red flags to help assess if you are going off the rails, Specify Policy check-points to act as guideposts, and Provide assessment questions as a conversation starter.  A focus on process A foundational principle of Scrum is that teams control their underlying processes. This speaks to [...]