Chris On The Bridge: Are You Agile?

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Chris On The Bridge: Are You Agile?




During the pandemic I shared a short series of videos about some of the software 
development and teamwork topics that Lab Zero was facing. Here's one about REAL Agility... 

Teams new to Agile get hung up on story-writing, daily standup drills, 
velocity calculations. At Lab Zero, Agile is none of these things. But it's 
the result of all of these things. True Agility means your whole business is 
able to respond to something that you didn't plan for. 

Real agility comes from all of the practices that your scrum-masters and 
coaches bring to your team. 

 

Hey, this is Chris at Lab Zero. 
I hope you are well, I hope all of your teams are
well. I am really amazed daily about how the Lab Zero team has flexed to adapt to
these new situations that we're all facing. Everybody's safe, and everybody's good 
and everybody's slightly freaked out, but not in a way that we won't work through. 

And the topic at hand that always comes to mind in this situation is agility: are you agile? 
Have you undergone the agile transformation? Are you performing in an agile way? Well
we've worked with a lot of clients through their agile transformation. And a lot of 
people get really stuck, and hung up on things like story writing, the new
rituals of stand-up meetings, and sprints, and calculating velocity... 

And they lose touch with the thing that's really important -- which is the 
ability to handle things you never plan for. The ability to take advantage of things 
you learn along the way. 

"Agility" with the Lab Zero team is none of those rituals. It is the
result of all of those rituals -- which should allow leaders to reprioritize
their portfolio (and for it to make sense), and to jettison those things that aren't
business critical when you really need to focus all of your effort on
the projects that matter. And it's the practice of the teams to take advantage
of those changes and deliver consistently through it. And maybe even
self-organized in a way that takes advantage of the trust, and tooling
documentation etc, so as your personnel changes you've got consistent performance 

And it really boils down to this the question I ask myself almost hourly nowadays: 
"Are you agile? 

Let me know! Let me know how agile you are and and what's working for
you and let's talk about this 

This is Chris form Lab Zero 

Be safe!




More from this "Chris On The Bridge" series: 

 
Build To Learn
 
Self-Healing Teams
 
Embrace Risk
 
Are You Agile?
 
What Is Essential?
 
Trust From Home



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