Leaders should listen, of course, when team members say they think they’d be more productive without a member. But, team members should not be allowed on their own to remove someone from the team.
There is more to leading a self-organizing team than buying pizza and getting out of the way. Leaders influence teams in subtle and indirect ways.
On an agile project—as well as in many other cases—there is no single, wringable neck. To say there is a way of releasing the rest of the team from responsibility.
By properly setting expectations you can avoid the problem of having an otherwise successful transition or project sunk by unrealistic expectations.
Selecting the right project as a pilot can be challenging. The ideal pilot project sits at the confluence of project size, project duration, project importance, and the engagement of the business sponsor.
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Jeff Patton recently posted an excerpt of Alistair Cockburn’s book Crystal Clear regarding the seven properties of successful Agile development projects.
A few great examples from Mike Cohn regarding release burndown charts. Release burndowns provide great visibility to the rest of the organization and these examples are a great way to be able to show the health status of your release.