Perform an Agile Skills Assessment
Being Agile isn’t about processes, it’s about people.
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Please note that the content on this page is retired. This content is not maintained and may contain information or links that are out of date.As you continue to grow your Agile practice and determining what is required to do so, there is potential for confusion including:
- A lack of succinct literature and standards on what makes Agile teams successful. Either the literature is about platitudes or hyper-specific scenarios.
- As Agile on a single team tends to focus on implementation specific concerns, people believe that a tactical approach to maturing your agile practice is the right way to go.
- Without team standards, individual Agile teams will define their own skill standards, thereby leading to disjoint approaches and inconsistent results.
Laying out a standard for Agile skills assessment will enable you to:
- Focus on what is truly important to enable agile teams to be successful.
- Acknowledge (and not ignore) differences between teams, and different parts of the organization.
- Focusing on skills first leads to better tangible outcomes. (You are laying the right foundation!)
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Module 1: Define Agile Skills and Maturity Levels
The Purpose
- Learn about and define the Agile skills that are important to your organization.
- Define the different levels of attainment when it comes to your Agile skills.
- Define the standards on a per-role basis.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Get a clear view of the Agile skills important into meet your Agile transformation goals in alignment with organizational objectives.
- Set a clear standard for what it means to meet your organizational standards for Agile skills.
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| 1.1 | Review and update the Agile skills relevant to your organization. |
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| 1.2 | Define your Agile proficiency levels to evaluate attainment of each skill. |
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| 1.3 | Define your Agile team roles. |
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| 1.4 | Define common experience levels for your Agile roles. |
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| 1.5 | Define the skill expectations for each Agile role. |
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