Comments on: Agile Maturity Model – What’s Next?

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:10:16 +0000

Thanks Elena! My response got too long, and realized it would work better as an article - let me know what you think. Specializing Generalist

By: Elena Yatzeck

Elena Yatzeck — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:30:32 +0000

I really like this. I especially like that you talk about how once people give lip service to “people over process,” they spend a lot of time tracking process.

In terms of refinement, I’m thinking a lot these days about “staffing the engineering team correctly.” I’m not sure I agree in practice that you can or should try to staff all teams with “specializing generalists,” or at least not as taken to an extreme. (If you’ll forgive the self-promotion, I talked more about this here: http://pagilista.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-blender-zone-cross-functional-doesnt.html.)

I’ve seen other articles “solve” the problem of people over process by saying you need “collocation” or “enthusiasm.” I wonder if it’s possible to be more scientific around the cultural steps and changes needed to get a whole organization to be staffing teams with the right people, without all of those people being newly hired.

Let me know what you think. Thanks for this post!

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By: Juha Riissanen

Juha Riissanen — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:47:48 +0000

"agile hierarchy of needs", steps to become an agile organisation by @sehlhorst in the end of http://bit.ly/bBdMmP

By: Patrick Masson

Patrick Masson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:31:14 +0000

Thanks Scott and please feel free to rip it up. I would really appreciate the feedback (anyone!)

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:54:32 +0000

Thanks Patrick, and welcome to Tyner Blain. I’ll have to noodle on that diagram some. Not sure I’m immediately bought in to some of the “causal” relationships you identified – but let me think before I form a “more baked” opinion.

Folks – check out Patrick’s diagram, and engage in the conversation on his site!

By: Patrick Masson

Patrick Masson — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:59:19 +0000

Scott,

I am working on my Masters and looking at organizational decision-making through Agile principles. One of my interests is to try and identity the qualities of an Agile organization, and then map those through adoption: causality, if you will.

The result looks a lot like a maturity model in the sense that an organization could use it to assess their level of adoption (authenticity and maturity). This is a work in progress, I would be interested your though thoughts. The model can be found at: http://openmasters.wordpress.com/agile-causality/

Thank you,
Patrick

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:14:53 +0000

R @YoavShapira strategy session exposes the ‘what _exactly_ are you trying to complete?’ issue too http://bit.ly/iXjFe #prodmgmt #agile

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:11:08 +0000

RT @asplake: nearly scared off @sehlhorst’s “Agile Maturity Model – What’s Next?” by the title, but it’s good! http://bit.ly/iXjFe #agile

By: Mike Burrows

Mike Burrows — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:12:03 +0000

nearly scared off @sehlhorst’s “Agile Maturity Model – What’s Next?” by the title, but it’s good! http://bit.ly/iXjFe #agile

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:41:16 +0000

Great point, Roger. If you do an iteration (a tree falls in the forest), and no one’s around to give you feedback (hear it), does it make you any better (any sound)?

By: Val Workman

Val Workman — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:04:31 +0000

@rcauvin liked your comment at http://tr.im/r77C #agile #prodmgmt but not sure conclusion follows. Care to discuss?

By: Roger L. Cauvin

Roger L. Cauvin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:48:03 +0000

Commented on new Tyner Blain post at http://tr.im/r77C. #agile #prodmgmt

By: Roger L. Cauvin

Roger L. Cauvin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:46:16 +0000

If there's one basic thing I recommend agile teams do, it's time-boxed iterations with demos. I call it "demonstration-based agile (DBA)".

By: unto the breach

unto the breach — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:50:53 +0000

Getting a New Team to do Cool Stuff…

Bootstrapping a New Engineering, Product and Design TeamWhen I took on my current job I was given an established product team and a mostly-new engineering team. We also had a brand new engineering man……

By: ZenBeatz

ZenBeatz — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:29:58 +0000

very cool #agile #maturity-model http://bit.ly/efyz5

By: David Alfaro

David Alfaro — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:59:01 +0000

Amazing Article: #Agile Maturity Model – What’s Next? http://tinyurl.com/npuhon (via @Agilebuddy)

By: Gustavo_Veliz

Gustavo_Veliz — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:51:18 +0000

jajaja hace rato era Madurez Agil RT @Agilebuddy #Agile Maturity Model – What’s Next? http://ow.ly/gm4z

By: Agilebuddy

Agilebuddy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:45:24 +0000

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