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Agile Adoption

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Target

Team begins with Kanban and adopts additional processes in response to specific team needs.

User Story

As a project leader, I have heard of teams that have adopted Agile workflows and significant success, and others that have had a very negative experience. Therefore, I want to capture the advantages of Agile without wasting time on unnecessary overhead so that I can improve the productivity of my team.

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Stage Description
0 Kanban board exists for team.
1 Kanban and Personal Kanban concepts introduced to team.
2 Team consistently uses Kanban board for tracking work for at least two weeks.
3 Team has held a retrospective to evaluate pros and cons of Kanban experience and has selected one to three experiments with other Agile processes to try for one month to address specific team needs.
4 Team has evaluated experiments and decided which practices to continue at 2nd retrospective, as well as choosen 1-3 new experiments of any kind related to team needs.
5 Team has held 3rd retrospective and decided which of 2nd group experiments to adopt permanently, as well as evaluated the Agile process improvement experience more generally.

Comments

  1. Examples of Agile processes include stand-up meetings, additional Kanban board columns, user stories, epic/story/task work breakdowns, etc.

Acknowledgement

This Project Tracking Card originated from the PSIP PTC Catalog. The development of the PSIP PTC Catalog was supported by the Exascale Computing Project (17-SC-20-SC), a collaborative effort of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration.