Stages of Agile Maturity

Teams at this level of their learning journey are focused on mastering the basics. Combined with self-organisation, these two key areas are vital to seeing improved throughput, lower costs and reduced delivery risk.

Archetypal behaviours seen in this stage:

• Focus on getting the basics of agile right.
• Alignment to industry standard roles and practices.
• Keeping things simple (and not overcomplicating agile practices).

Focus for growth:

• Master the basics.
• Self-organisation.
• Delivery within guardrails
• Creating and encouraging consistency of agile practice and roles across teams, this includes tool usage.

What to avoid:

• Avoid customising practices before you’ve mastered them. Many rules for certain practices might seem inconvenient at first, but they exist for a reason. Get to know why.