Building A Team: Starting Agile in Your Organization

Agile has become a very hot topic for organizations over time, with many conversations discussing whether the methodology is right for them and their needs for projects. Integrating Agile can be a very major overhaul for any business or organization because it can be a non-stop process of changing and improving. To introduce Agile, the main concern should be to understand and pinpoint why the business, project, or organization needs such an implementation. This builds a strong base to sustain the methodology for however long the project may take.

The first thing one can do to bring Agile into an organization is to make sure everyone within the team and organization understands there is a need for changing current practices and that Agile can be a real solution. Problems can arise if a project starts without everyone on board understanding what needs to be delivered, and it can be much easier to start the Agile transformation if the entire team is on the same page, acknowledging that a problem needs to be solved.

One can take several routes when trying to convince an organization and team members that Agile can and should be a solution to managing projects. First, we need to understand that different groups within the business and organization have a focus on many diverse topics, and may only be looking for answers to their own challenges. It makes sense to sell Agile as a structured and as an understandable and predictable framework for deliverables.

Agile can be used as a way to control workflow and definition of tasks, and once each group is specified, the organizational transformation into Agile can finally begin.

Agile methods, also known as the driving processes, consists of team meetings and understanding and fleshing out the new practices. All of these related Agile methods are brought together into an Agile framework, and it is important for each member to know terms and the language in the early stages of the transformation as well as not overstating the implementation of the Agile methodology while bringing up what the organization can lose by this process. Making sure the positives and negatives are brought to every groups attention, it then make sense to introduce a structured yet modest recommendation with carefully set expectations and preparations for the process of transformation that can possibly take a long time.

Works Cited

"Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team." Lynda.com - from LinkedIn, www.lynda.com/		Business-Skills-tutorials/Welcome/175073/379413-4.html. Accessed 1 Nov. 2017.