Chapter 6
Putting Agile into Action: The Behaviors
In This Chapter
Setting up agile roles
Creating agile values in your organization
Transforming your team’s philosophy
Sharpening important skills
In this chapter, you look at the behavioral dynamics that need to shift for your organization to benefit from the performance advantages that agile techniques enable. You find out what the different roles on an agile project are and see how you can change a project team’s values and philosophy about project management. Finally, I discuss some ways for a project team to hone key skills for agile project success.
Establishing Agile Roles
In Chapter 4, I describe scrum, one of the most popular agile approaches in use today. The scrum framework defines common agile roles in an especially succinct manner. I use scrum terms to describe agile roles throughout this book. These roles are
Development team member
Product owner
Scrum master
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