- Your organization is trying to address the key delivery challenges you are facing. Early experiments with Agile are starting to bear fruit.
- As part of maturing your Agile practice, you want to evaluate if you have the right skills and capabilities in place.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Focusing on the non-technical skills can yield significant returns for your products, your team, and your organization. These skills are what should be considered as the real Agile skills.
Impact and Result
- Define the skills and values that are important to your organization to be successful at being Agile.
- Put together a standard criterion for measurement of the attainment of given skills.
- Define the roadmap and communication plan around your agile assessment.
Perform an Agile Skills Assessment Research & Tools
Start here – read the Executive Brief
Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should perform an agile skills assessment. review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.Besides the small introduction, subscribers and consulting clients within this management domain have access to:
- Perform an Agile Skills Assessment – Phases 1-3
1. Take stock of the Agile skills and values important to you
Confirm the list of Agile skills that you wish to measure.
- Perform an Agile Skills Assessment – Phase 1: Take Stock of the Agile Skills and Values Important to You
- Agile Skills Assessment Tool
- Agile Skills Assessment Tool Example
2. Define an assessment method that works for you
Define what it means to attain specific agile skills through a defined ascension path of proficiency levels, and standardized skill expectations.
- Perform an Agile Skills Assessment – Phase 2: Define an Assessment Method That Works for You
3. Plan to assess your team
Determine the roll-out and communication plan that suits your organization.
- Perform an Agile Skills Assessment – Phase 3: Plan to Assess Your Team
- Agile Skills Assessment Communication and Roadmap Plan
- Agile Skills Assessment Communication and Roadmap Plan Example
Workshop: Perform an Agile Skills Assessment
Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
1 Define Agile Skills and Maturity Levels
The Purpose
Learn about and define the Agile skills that are important to your organization.
Define the different levels of attainment when it comes to your Agile skills.
Define the standards on a per-role basis.
Key Benefits Achieved
Get a clear view of the Agile skills important into meet your Agile transformation goals in alignment with organizational objectives.
Set a clear standard for what it means to meet your organizational standards for Agile skills.
Activities
1.1 Review and update the Agile skills relevant to your organization.
1.2 Define your Agile proficiency levels to evaluate attainment of each skill.
1.3 Define your Agile team roles.
1.4 Define common experience levels for your Agile roles.
1.5 Define the skill expectations for each Agile role.
Outputs
A list of Agile skills that are consistent with your Agile transformation
A list of proficiency levels to be used during your Agile skills assessment
A confirmed list of roles that you wish to measure on your Agile teams
A list of experience levels common to Agile team roles (example: Junior, Intermediate, Senior)
Define the skill expectations for each Agile role