Stage One: Starting

Archetypal behaviours seen in this stage:

• Management direction and task delegation.
• Ad-hoc or waterfall practices.
• Optimisation for ultilisation.

Focus for growth:

• Managers must establish and promote guardrails for self-organisation.
• Start shifting managers to being accountable for improving the organisation’s capability over directing and managing work.
• Draft the a roadmap that describes the journey to agile product management, including milestones and how you will use Agile IQ’s metrics to understand progress toward organisation agility.
• Transparency of work.

What do avoid:

• Don’t mistake self-organising teams for autonomous teams. Set the minimum set of rules, practices and roles to work within and let the team manage themselves to deliver within those boundaries.
• Don’t create activity-based, capability-based or multi-disciplinary teams teams. Start to shift toward cross-functional and multi-purpose teams.