Understanding and Apply Scrum [P1]: Empiricism - Agile is constant change

Question 1

How does the team change for the better?

Answer 1

Reflect on the things they will do to enhance the good things, and remove the bad things

Question 2

What are some of the common change-related ways teams get stuck?

Answer 2

1) They try to change too much

2) They don’t see anything to change

3) The team is changing at a rate faster than the organisation can accept

Question 3

What do you do to fix the problem of trying to change too much?

Answer 3

• limit # things that you are going to change
• talk about action item in each daily scrum

Question 4

What are the two extremes of the “nothing to change” mindset in a team?

Answer 4

• (1) overwhelmed
• (2) not seeing any way that the team could work better

Question 5

What do you do to fix the “nothing to change” mindset in a team?

Answer 5

• focus on a clear vision
• common goal —> current state can be compared to that —> find the one change to give the most benefit for the least effort —> build momentum

Question 6

What do you do to fix the Team vs Org change problem?

Answer 6

• organisation needs to move to the mindset that things will be different, every day, every week i.e. agile is not a state
• Helping this understanding take hold at a wider level is the responsibility of all the people helping develop the agility of the organisation

Question 7

What phrases indicate that your team is agile?

Answer 7

“for our team, we have found …” to describe your ways of working