Agile Leaders Must Build a Problem-solving Culture

As an Agile Leader, help your teams get back to their innate curiosity and build a problem-solving habit.

Problem-solving goes by many names these days. A few common ones are below, which may be familiar to you:

• Curiosity
• Growth Mindset
• Learning
• Scientific Thinking
• Experimentation
• PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act)
• Design Thinking (Think, Make, Check)
• Lean Startup (Build, Measure, Learn)
• Continuous Improvement / Kaizen

To say the least, it is a popular topic. Whether we are using Scrum, Kanban, XP, LeSS, SAFe, or some other Agile framework, we want a problem-solving mindset. Want is too soft. We need this mindset.

We all arrive curious by nature.

So, can we flip a switch and embrace a problem-solving culture? Most of us believe we can. We assume we are born with innate problem-solving skills. Are we? Absolutely. We all arrive curious by nature. It is critical for acclimating to the world when we come into it.