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.