Topic Teasers Vol. 30: Changing Agile Attitudes

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My agile team does okay with the new structure of how we do things, but it seems like we’ve just replaced one set of rules with another. How can I get them to change the way they think about things, not just follow the new processes? I understand that is the underlying key to agile success?

A. Management does not care what team members believe as long as they turn around work more quickly than they did in the past. Leave people to think what they will.

B.  In addition to the team rules and the agile methodology process rules, tell people each day what they are to think about the work they do and how they should view others.

C. You can’t mandate change. You can only find a fun way to demonstrate and remind people on the team about the premises of agile philosophy.

D. If your team won’t quickly adjust to knowing and following the agile philosophies, this approach to doing projects will fail. Return to traditional project management practices.

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Answer: C. You can’t mandate change. You can only find a fun way to demonstrate and remind people on the team about the premises of agile philosophy.

This is an important question, because the true success of agile as a methodology involves not just following Scrum or other …

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