Managing Agile Projects

Principle 1: Foster Alignment and Cooperation

Team behavior is driven both by team structure and individual responses to events. Team structure affects how team members are deployed on a project, how they participate in its daily operation, and how power is distributed among the team. All these factors can affect how team members behave on a day-to-day basis. At a personal level, individuals respond to events based on their view of the project. If this view of the project is different from what others perceive, the response will be different in turn. To foster alignment and cooperation on agile projects, you need to transition with some structural changes in team organization and operation, and you need to actively manage the creation of a vision ...