The success of Agile relies heavily on the performance of “the team”. The Agile manifesto principles refer to the team directly and on closer inspection relies heavily on the team as a key component to the success of the Agile principle. Frameworks such as Scrum, XP, DSDM all refer to the team, but all in a very different composition. In my talk I hope to cover the essential meaning of what an Agile team is and show directly an example of a team evolution. The main premise is to look at the organizational dysfunctions such as constraints, processes and rules that not only hurt teams, but teams and organizations could use to their advantage to make sure they are at the top of their game.

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What would the A-Team do?
#AGILEME2015
12/04/2015

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5. What would the A-Team do?

6. What is a team?

10. Its just the way they are
organised!

12. Rules
Limits
Constraints

13. How often do we feel like
superheroes?

16. There must be something
else going on here?

17. Specialisation
Creativity
Clear Goals

18. People
Organisation
Culture

22. HERDING CATS

25. Complexity

27. What is an agile team?

29. CREDIT: ROMAN PICHLER CONSULTING

32. There is nothing funny
about DSDM :(

33. CREDIT: DSDM CONSORTIUM

39. Business people and developers
must work together daily throughout
the project

40. Build projects around motivated
individuals. Give them the
environment and support they
need, and trust them to get the
job done

41. The most efficient and effective
method of conveying information
to and within a development
team is face-to-face
conversation

42. The best architectures,
requirements, and designs
emerge from self-organizing
teams.

43. What would the A-Team do?

44. Don't do this

46. Do this

47. Rules
Limits
Constraints

49. Twitter: @yolandy
Web: agilesnap.com

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