Jeff is the author of Actionable Agile tools (available on Amazon, and direct from the author at bit.ly/aatbook). He joins us on this series of Q&A shows to answer questions you’ve submitted. You can submit your questions via our survey (short, about 2 min to fill-in) or by tweeting us @scrumpodcast with #agilejeff.
In this episode, we talk about getting management to be involved and buy-in to the agile transformation.
How do you help your teams challenge themselves to try new things?
There was this one team. They were actually quite good!
That was the good part. However, after a while, they were so good that they started to act as if they didn’t want to improve anymore.
They thought they were good, but I knew they had a serious lack of innovation, they were stuck in the same old methods and processes.
They thought they were better than the rest, but I knew they were just doing the same thing for a long time and were far from their potential!
How do you help your teams challenge themselves to try new things?
Resources and tools
- We talk about a retrospective format that helps teams find practices they want to try out: the Agile Practices Retrospective
About Jeff Campbell
Jeff Campbell is the author of Actionable Agile Tools, a book with practical tools and practices to help you amplify your impact as a coach and Scrum Master
Jeff is an Agile Coach who considers the discovery of Agile and Lean to be one of the most defining moments of his life and considers helping others to improve their working life not to simply be a job, but a social responsibility. As an Agile Coach, he has worked with driving Agile transformations in organizations both small and large.
Jeff is also involved in the Agile community and is one of the founding members of Gothenburg Sweden’s largest agile community at 1500+ members www.scrumbeers.com, and he also organizes the yearly conference www.brewingagile.org.
You can link with Jeff Campbell on LinkedIn and connect with Jeff Campbell on Twitter.
