Stages of Agile Maturity

Stage Five teams are agile leaders. They look beyond their own team to support others to be agile and contribute to the organisation’s ways of working to improve delivery, quality and the whole operating model. They lead by example.

Archetypal behaviours seen in this stage:

• Investment in continuous improvement.
• Systems Thinking.
• Leading by example.
• Helping other teams learn evolve and grow.

Focus for growth:

• Agile leadership.
• Lean leadership.

Things to avoid:

• Avoid suddenly shifting a Stage Five Team’s focus to leadership. Iteratively give them more responsibilities.