10 Questions you need to answer before kicking off an Agile Team
‘’If the first button of the shirt is wrongly put, all the others are surely wrong.’’
Always be mindful on your first step…
1- What is your purpose? What do you want to achieve?
2- Who sponsors this team? Is there any alignment with the sponsor in terms of the outcomes you gonna deliver?
3- Is the team fully cross functional? Are you capable enough to deliver the outcome with the team members itself?
4- Is there any dependency toward other teams or externals? Do you have any alignment to get their on demand support?
5- What is the dedication level of the team members? Is it committed?
6- Are you gonna work in a co-located way?
7- Who is the PO of the team? Is (s)he fully
- capable of delivering a backlog
- empowered to decide what and when to be delivered
- managing the backlog
- managing the stakeholders communication and expectation
- dedicated
8- Who is your customer? Are you able to provide the feedbacks from customer?
9- How frequent do you plan to deliver something as an outcome?
10- What is your agile knowledge level? Are you ready to invest time and effort to learn the theory?
And finally do you have a coach who will ask you the right questions to keep you on the agility track?
