A High Performing Agile Team

by Adnan Aziz

A High Performing Agile TeamTeam:

A team comprises a group of people linked in a common purpose

Performance:

The process of carrying out an task

Agile:

Able to move quickly and easily

Attribute # 1

Trust each other

Tools to use

• Open yourself to others that demonstrates honesty and humility.

• Your team needs to know that you are just like them.

• Share your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) scores.

Attribute # 2

Spent time together to form bonds

Tools to use

Use Tuckman model to build common understanding

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Attribute # 3

Team has functional conflict on how to achieve outcomes

Tools to use

Face the truth

• If functional conflict doesn’t occur, then team is afraid of facing the truth

• Encourage positive conflict

Time boxed experiments

• Implement two ideas and agree to have measurement based discussion

Attribute # 4

Keeps team commitment

Tool to use

• Understand the commitment

• Build team agreements around commitment

• Create a goal and visualize your commitment

Attribute # 5

Holds themselves accountable

Tools to use

• Ask what value is getting delivered to the client?

• Question how value will be measured?

• Holds regular team retrospectives

• Retrospective results and action items are visible in the team area

Attribute # 6

Buys into the mission

HOW

WHY

Tools to use

WHAT

Understand what is the cause

behind the mission?

Attribute # 7

Continuously strive for improvement

Tools to use

Conduct regular team health checks

Attribute # 8

Team workload is visible in open space

Tools to use

Build workflow boards in your team space

Attribute # 9

Team impediments are visible

Tools to use

Use impediment board

Attribute # 10

Deliver working software incrementally

at sustainable pace

Tools to use

• Do more of TDD and BDD

• Adopt components fromIaaS model

• Use build lights and

information radiators to

highlight the status of your

build pipeline

Questions?