Key takeaways
- Focus on the principles behind agile (customer first, frequent delivery, team collaboration) rather than on 'being agile'.
- Fixed timescales and budgets push most agency projects toward a blended approach; time-and-materials contracts allow more pure agile.
- Applying a framework without adapting the mindset is the most common mistake; expect to try, test and change things.
- Start by identifying pain points with retrospectives, borrow single practices such as a daily stand-up, and map outcomes with a now/next/later roadmap.
- Take proposed changes to the team first, make small changes, and let the team lead some of them so it is not all on you.
About this episode
"Trying to implement things from a framework, you've got to have expectations that you will need to adapt things, try things out."
Sometimes your process is rock solid and it just works. Other times, you find room for improvement. Whether you’re adapting formalized practices like Scrum or Waterfall, or crafting your own process based on what you know what works (or what doesn’t work) for you, your team, stakeholders, and project. But there will always be challenges and things to consider. In this episode, consultant digital delivery lead Suze Haworth shares her thoughts on crafting process, including:
- What leads teams to transform process
- What adapting Agile means
- What embracing Agile practices means to project management role
- The challenges you might encounter when adapting process
- Practical tactics to help you employ a new process