Agile IQ®
Stage one
Agile IQ® Score: 0-48
What is a "stage one" team?
A team at this stage of its agile journey is in the Shu stage of Shu Ha Ri. A Stage One team has an Agile IQ of 0-48.
A Stage One team is typically either just learning how to be agile, or hasn’t firmly committed to changing the way that they work.
Self-management is the key to moving to the next stage of agility.
What is self-management?
Self-management isn’t chaos. It requires management to set guardrails that define the boundaries for team-level actions, behaviours, and expected outputs.
The stronger a team’s self-management behaviours, and the more managers support and encourage self-management, the stronger the outcomes agile brings: faster to market, higher quality, improved predictability, lower delivery risk and and transparency.
More on self-management
What is Self Management?
Learn how to set the guardrails for teams to manage themselves.
The Manager's Role
Managers in agile organisations are expected to manage the guardrails for decision-making.
Self-Organising Behaviours
The behaviours that make teams 15-20% more productive.
Learn about the behaviours that make you more agile
Self-Organisation
Self-organising teams are more effective than manager-led teams. You can easily achieve 15-20% more productivity this way.
Agile Values
Take your organisation beyond just the symbols of agility and work to change people's mindsets - the way they think about work
Continuous learning culture
Agility gives you room to improve and to be active in learning and taking time out for experimentation.
Sprinting
Working in a cadence of rapid, short work cycles, is key to receiving fast feedback to learn, innovate, and pivot to change.
Learn about agile roles
Scrum Master
Accountable for Scrum's effectiveness
Product Owner
Accountable for optimising the value of the product or service.
Developers
Accountable for delivering an Increment of work that meets the Definition of Done.
Managers
Accountable for the guardrails of self-management.