Start with Yourself

Regardless of how your organization or team started with agile approaches, you can begin to create an agile culture by using the agile mindset yourself. Consider how you can use agile approaches in your work:

• How can you be transparent with your work? Consider a personal kanban board with WIP limits.

• How can you collaborate with the team and others? Consider when to bring other people into your work. Instead of writing a project charter alone, write it with the team, timeboxing the effort. Instead of having people ask you about the project’s status, create a transparent way to report status on a daily basis. Instead of removing project impediments alone, consider enlisting other project leaders across the organization to see if you can all collaborate.

• How can you exhibit the growth mindset? Instead of being discouraged at setbacks, can you consider this an opportunity to learn early and create a better result?

People look up to their leadership. In your context, what can you do to use agile approaches as a person and as a team?