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6 Best Practices your Agile Team should Adopt
6 Best Practices your Agile Team should Adopt

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This blog is the second in the series of blogs on Agile.

In the last few years, being Agile became the need of the hour for not just software development teams but also businesses as a whole. Organizations started using agile project management practices to deliver value in a fast paced environment.

Since Agile is more beneficial than using traditional methods, below are some of the best practices that Agile teams should adopt to get favourable results:

  1. Put the customer first

Collaborate with the customer/ stakeholders on a regular basis. This insures that they are aware of the progress at every step of the project. You should also invite them to scrum meetings so that client expectations can be matched with what the team is planning to deliver.

  1. Create sprints or iterations

Agile teams categorize their activities and tasks in different sprints or iterations. This helps the team use total time for the project strategically and allocate members from the team as per their capabilities and experience.

  1. Create a self- manageable team and allot a Scrum Master to the project

Teams that make their own decisions on how to execute work and who will be doing what are known as self- manageable teams. In an Agile team, the roles are defined within a team based on previous experience. Roles such as Team Lead, Project Lead, Scrum Master, Team members, Scrum Product Owner should be defined within the team.

A Scrum Master is the one who can bring out the potential of the team. They can focus on the needs of the team members, can guide them on skills they should work on, and help them grow as a professional. For an Agile process to function effectively, it is important to have a guide who can lead the team and help them become independent and self-organizing.

  1. Prioritize action items, capture challenges

At every step of the project or in every sprint, it is important to prioritize between all the action items that you may have listed. This should be done keeping the stakeholders in mind or discussing it directly with them. It is also important that any challenges that are encountered during or before the project begins are highlighted and dealt with while being transparent.

  1. Plan new sprint when new changes come in or backlogs increase

The principles of agile methodologies are based on being very open to changes and incorporating them as and when their need arises. In a scenario when such a need arises to incorporate change(s), include them into the action items of the running sprint if possible. If that is not possible, you may also create a separate new sprint to include this change(s) into the project. This can also be done in cases when the list of backlogs increase.

  1. Reflect on how to become more effective at the end of every sprint

Agile teams should periodically look back to analyse their performance. This helps in identifying pain points and working on them to improve going ahead. Many agile teams use Kanban boards which help them visualize workflow, plan daily tasks and track status. Kanban boards help spot issues as well as success.

Upcoming: Agile Use Cases v/s User Stories (Agile series part 3)

Read the first in the series of Agile: An Alliance with Agile

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