How do you promote an agile mindset across departmental boundaries and

1.	How do you promote an agile mindset across departmental boundaries and throughout an organization and, in pursuit of that, what is your strategy when coaching stakeholders not familiar with IT?
Answer» More importantly the Agile practitioner should be the “seller of Agile” wherever he goes. His heart and soul should think only about its principles, manifesto and different ways of implementing it. Engage people in this discussion by various means. Not necessarily in meetings can be in during Lunch time, coffee time etc. Arrange for different types of workshops to train them. Call them for the sprint PLANNING, review, and retrospection. Discuss the velocity, lead time change from idea to product launch and level of customer SATISFACTION during this process. Arrange for small pilot projects for their domain to give them more insights into this process. Product and engineering teams can demonstrate that SCRUM mitigates risk (i.e. the prediction of when NEW features could be made available), thus contributing to other DEPARTMENTS’ successes in planning and execution.

How do you promote an agile mindset across departmental boundaries and throughout an organization and, in pursuit of that, what is your strategy when coaching stakeholders not familiar with IT?

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More importantly the Agile practitioner should be the “seller of Agile” wherever he goes. His heart and soul should think only about its principles, manifesto and different ways of implementing it.

Engage people in this discussion by various means. Not necessarily in meetings can be in during Lunch time, coffee time etc.
Arrange for different types of workshops to train them.
Call them for the sprint PLANNING, review, and retrospection.
Discuss the velocity, lead time change from idea to product launch and level of customer SATISFACTION during this process.
Arrange for small pilot projects for their domain to give them more insights into this process.
Product and engineering teams can demonstrate that SCRUM mitigates risk (i.e. the prediction of when NEW features could be made available), thus contributing to other DEPARTMENTS’ successes in planning and execution.

How do you promote an agile mindset across departmental boundaries and throughout an organization and, in pursuit of that, what is your strategy when coaching stakeholders not familiar with IT?

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