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Imagine you have a discussion with your friend who boasts about the recent successful Agile adoption by his team. What key questions you may ask to look for if his team is really being Agile?

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While doing Agile is about following sets of practices, it is the Agile attitude which complements the practices and helps the organization reap maximum benefit. So, if a team is just following a defined set of practices WITHOUT understanding the rationale behind it and not having an Agile mindset, the team will not SUCCEED. So, I shall ask a few questions like Has your team adapted any of the Scrum practices to suit your team’s need? How frequently does your team release value to its customers? Does the team hold each other accountable to sprint and project success and are they empowered? Does the team stride to improve their technical EXPERTISE and is time buffered for innovation? How does the team respond if there's a crisis or problem that makes a deadline or planned milestone no longer POSSIBLE to achieve?

These are just a few quick litmus tests to see if a team is being Agile and if a team is NEGATIVE on any of the above questions, then they are most definitely not there yet.



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