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Successful agile project teams make decisions and act on those decisions; plan and schedule their own work; and take full responsibility for getting the work done. But these highly productive teams don’t just happen. They require guidance and support from team leaders, be it project managers or Scrum Masters, who modify their own behaviors as they help the team evolve into a self-organizing, independent force.
An agile team’s highest priority is to regularly deliver business value to the customer. By meeting the goal to “commit and deliver” potentially shippable code in each iteration, a mature agile team can easily double or quadruple its productivity. The mature agile team can also attain significant increases in the quality of delivered code in the form of fewer bugs, and realize significant improvements in the level of customer satisfaction.
Empowered, self-organizing agile teams mature over time, often with many bumps and thumps along the way. As agile team leaders — whether in the role of Project Manager, Scrum Master, Program Manager — we must cultivate the maturation of an agile team by understanding its changing needs through the stages of team development. By providing appropriate levels of support and guidance, we nurture the team’s evolution into a more mature, self-organizing group. To do this, project leaders must understand where the team is on an Agile Team Maturity Scale, and how to modify their own behaviors appropriately to facilitate team progress.
An agile team must be empowered to deliver their work.
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