From the course: Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team (2015)
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Train a core team to evangelize others
From the course: Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team (2015)
Train a core team to evangelize others
- The best way to start agile in your organization is to think small. Begin with a small core team and make sure they correctly follow the agile framework. If you work at a mid-size organization, then the team could have as little as four people. Then, you can expand agile in your organization through conversion by contagion. So you convert one team to agile and then share their contagious excitement with the rest of the organization. Try to keep this core team happy. If they like agile, then they'll be your strongest advocates for change. Give them time to be successful. They should see the benefits of the change. Don't spend too much time trying to sell agile to the team. Instead, put all of your energy into making agile work well. Because this core team will be our ambassadors for agile, you need to make sure that they are correctly following the framework. If the first team doesn't understand agile, then they will likely spread a lot of misinformation. I once worked for an…
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