Now Try This

1. Invite your manager to see the team at work. Help the manager see why a team workspace is useful and how the team might use it.
2. Help your manager see the value of collaborative cross-functional teams by using throughput or WIP or cost-of-delay calculations.
3. Start the discussion with your manager about what it would take or what it might look like to start to recognize and reward teams. This could be a discussion that evolves over many meetings, so start now.

Now that you’ve seen how you might use agile approaches at the team level, consider how you might start—especially if you’re not so sure agile approaches are right for you.