Agile IQ®

Developing People and Teams

Influencing Behaviour. Secondary Factor.

Overview

All agile team members must continuously improve agile practices to increase the benefits and adapt as new challenges arise. Scrum Masters often fulfil coaching roles to serve this outcome.

Through team development, team members will have opportunities to build rapport with a foundation of acceptance. When people trust one another, they’re more likely to share ideas, collaborate effectively and make the right decisions for everyone and what they deliver.

Team development is easy, in theory

But as most leaders know, team development doesn’t just happen; there’s a lot involved in turning a group of people into a functioning and productive team. At its core, team building is a considered process of transitioning separate individuals into a cohesive group. A group that is at once working interdependently and cooperatively to accomplish a specific set of purposes and goals.

In theory, the concept of team development is simple: amass a group of talented and engaged individuals and task them with completing a specific goal. In reality, the effort and planning that goes into team building is strategic.

Team development in context

Key focus areas

A manager's role: Build capability. Don't task manage.

Scrum Master's role: Build cross-functionality and self-organisation

Ensure people understand their agile roles

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Invest in good team design

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Use Agile IQ® to understand gaps in the operating model capability

Agile IQ provides 27 behavioural factors that measure the effectiveness of agile operating practices.

  • Assess teams – What’s their Agile IQ?
  • Identify gaps – What are the lowest areas of agile practice according to Agile IQ?
  • Create change plans to invest in capability development to strengthen and enhance these areas.

Capability development: use Backlogs to focus teams on improvements

Agile IQ provides 27 behavioural factors that measure the effectiveness of agile operating practices.

  • Assess teams – What’s their Agile IQ?
  • Identify gaps – What are the lowest areas of agile practice according to Agile IQ?
  • Create change plans to invest in capability development to strengthen and enhance these areas.
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Learning areas for capability development

Building Capability

Working as a team

A team charter is a document that is developed in a group setting that clarifies team

Building Capability

Succession Planning

Actively create plans for who fills in for key roles at Sprint Planning.

Connectedness

Template: Team Skills Matrix

A skills helps make the team’s capability transparent and assists with resource planning, succession planning, and

Connectedness

Encouraging Team Work

How do you help members of the team to be mutually committed to the goals and to

Management Commitment

Servant Leadership

Build stronger teams through prioritising and serving the greater good.

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