Growing Agile Teams copyright 2011 agile42 consulting ltd team name: more directive more guiding each stage acts as a scaffold, offering guidance and support, for different phases of a team’s agile journey agile teams first focus on smoothing flow and enhancing quality, leading to maximizing of value delivery enhancing quality maximizing value smoothing flow Everyone experiences SM Team owns environment Velocity guides release Reduces technical debt Grow engineering practices Automated PBI testing Business value drives work Visible measure of value Swarms on committed PBIs Owns external dependencies STEP 3. Maximize Value organize to deliver maximum value Cross-functional Teams Regular backlog grooming PBIs broken into tasks Transparent team capacity Daily stand-ups Sprint burndown Focus on 2-3 PBIs Working Agreement PBIs for 1-2 sprints Impediment backlog Active Learning Cycle Definition of Done Definition of Ready Potentially shippable Vision and requirements STEP 1. Organize preparing the structures, work and people Team takes 6-10 PBIs Predictability over 90% PBIs reviewed as done Shared code ownership Technical debt identified Bugs actively fixed 1-3 improvement actions Release Definition of Done Business value understood PBIs done in priority order STEP 2. Gain Experience people, process and work all settling in, focus on learning Specialist knowledge shared Acceptance test-driven dev Limited manual testing Automated testing of NFRs Communities of Practice Shared Definition of Done Stable and verifiable builds Cross-cutting concerns Entire team works on release STEP 4. Scale grow knowledge, share learning, expand capabilities the accompanying Growing Agile Teams worksheets provide more details behind the checklist for each step