The +15FLIGHTPLAN poster for allowing agile teams to plan their own growth as a team over time. Presented at Agile2012, in Dallas, Texas.

1. Growing Agile Teams team name:
☐ Specialist knowledge shared
☐ Acceptance test-driven dev
☐ Limited manual testing
STEP 4. Scale ☐ Automated testing of NFRs
grow knowledge, share learning, ☐ Communities of Practice
expand capabilities ☐ Shared Definition of Done
☐ Stable and verifiable builds
☐ Cross-cutting concerns
☐ Entire team works on release
☐ Everyone experiences SM ☐ Business value drives work
☐ Team owns environment ☐ Visible measure of value
☐ Velocity guides release ☐ Swarms on committed PBIs
☐ Owns external dependencies
STEP 3. Maximize Value
organize to deliver maximum value ☐ Reduces technical debt
☐ Grow engineering practices
☐ Automated PBI testing
☐ Team takes 6-10 PBIs ☐ Business value understood
☐ Predictability over 90% ☐ PBIs done in priority order
☐ PBIs reviewed as done
STEP 2. Gain
Experience ☐ Shared code ownership
people, process and work all settling
in, focus on learning
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Technical debt identified
Bugs actively fixed
agile teams first focus on
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1-3 improvement actions
Release Definition of Done
smoothing flow and
enhancing quality, leading to
☐ Cross-functional Teams
☐ Regular backlog
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Working Agreement
PBIs for 1-2 sprints
maximizing of value delivery
grooming
☐ Impediment backlog
STEP 1. Organize ☐ PBIs broken into tasks
☐ Active Learning Cycle maximizing value
preparing the structures, work and ☐ Transparent team
☐ Definition of Done
people capacity
☐ Definition of Ready enhancing quality
☐ Daily stand-ups
☐ Potentially shippable
☐ Sprint burndown
☐ Vision and requirements
smoothing flow
☐ Focus on 2-3 PBIs
more each stage acts as a scaffold, offering guidance and more
directive support, for different phases of a team’s agile journey guiding
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the accompanying Growing Agile Teams worksheets provide more details behind the checklist for each step