Top 5 Agile Change Tips 3 - Let Them Change How They Work
October 10, 2012
This is the third post on my top 5 ways of making sure that your agile change initiative succeeds.
This is the list - in order of importance:
- Get a great “Or else”-reason for doing this change
- Sit together
- Let them change how they work (this post)
- Support the initiative
- Use visualised data to improve
3 - Let Them Change How They Work
You need to open up and let go of the wheel. An agile transformation is, if anything, a culture shift. Towards autonomy and away from top-level steering. This should go into the agile transformation too. In effect, this means, in the words of all agile coaches, to take it to the team.
The guys that are going to live in this environment - they are the ones best equipped to know what to do about it. Hey - they...