Roadmap to Agility
Agility is often seen as an aspirational state, but it is very attainable for technical teams with some planning and preparation. Below are five main steps that technical teams looking to achieve agility should consider:
Work on Your Mindset:
An agile mindset is essential for successfully achieving and sustaining agility in any organization. This means having a growth-oriented attitude where failure is normalized and used as an opportunity to learn and improve. It also means communicating frequently and effectively, embracing change and accepting it, respecting people, focusing on simplicity, and delivering value to stakeholders
Understand the Fundamentals:
A solid understanding of the values and principles that underpin the different agility practices is necessary to apply them effectively. Courses and certifications can provide invaluable insights to learn what you need about agility.
Prepare a Development Roadmap:
Select a suitable track or certification program that meets future goals is key when setting up a development roadmap for agility. Taking courses from accredited sources will ensure agility practices are learned quickly and easily.
Agility is often seen as an aspirational state, but it is very attainable for technical teams with some planning and preparation. Below are five main steps that technical teams looking to achieve agility should consider:
Implement Agility Within Your Team:
While agile practices should be adopted at every level of an organization, starting on a small scale with your team or a few teams can still have a positive impact. A few practices to consider applying, as an agile technical team, are: mastering your craft, seeking continuous improvement, being very selective with your tools, and building a beneficial and sustainable product incrementally. Always remember to give yourselves ample time to adapt to the new working style that fits with agile values, principles, and practices. Through transparency and open communication, try to obtain buy-in from leadership before implementing agility to ensure commitment and support of all other functions to the new ways of work.
Acquire Agile Supporting Technology & Measure Results:
Having access to the right technologies and tools can significantly help support agile practices within an organization while providing quantitative and qualitative metrics around its success rate when applied correctly. It is important to stay flexible and make regular adjustments based on the results achieved. Most importantly, continually reinforce culture and mindset at all levels to maintain ongoing adoption of agility within your organization for long-term success.
Below are a few certification tracks for you to consider:
Source: https://www.icagile.com/
Source: https://resources.scrumalliance.org/
Source: https://kanban.university/kanban-development-path/
https://scaledagile.com/train-certify/