3 Tips to Succeed in Agile

People make agile seem pretty complicated when they first hear
about it. There are clear successes when you implement agile if
you are able to incorporate a few things. If you don't understand
the underlying philosophies of scrum, you may have a harder time
being successful. Listen with Bob and George Dinwiddie as they
give advice and tips on how to organize your work, do it, and
work as a team. 


 


1. Organizing the work


Goes hand in hand with the body of scrum.Have a clear goal, work
in iterations, don't plan too far in advance. For some, that's
enough, but it might not be enough by itself to deliver regularly
and reliably. Here are some tips on organizing your work:


Break the work down into chunks to complete in short
iterations.  

Measure progress by the end result's value, rather than the
time spent on the work



2. Doing the work


Teams already know the work that they're doing to some degree.
Sometimes they aren't doing it well, sometimes they are. 


Having deadlines might shine a light on some fundamental
issues your team might have. They might be signing on for too
much, not know how to test, find discrepancies in what to build,
or a host of other underlying problems. 

Integrate testing into the work - don't wait until you need
to deploy!

Have "not started", "in progress", and "done" as your columns
on a visual management system



3. Working as a team


A lot of companies expect to throw people into a room and exter
them to magically work well together. We know that doesn't
actually happen, so here are some tips to have your team work
better together.


Collaborate! Have your testers and developers talk throughout
the entire sprint, instead of waiting until a testing phase to
work out bugs. 

Make sure your team supports each other. Respect opinions,
have dialogue instead of arguments, and adjust to the
personalities in your team.

Have ongoing organizational support. perhaps try integrating
team level performance and individual level performance
together 



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