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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.

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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.

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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.

Perform an Agile Skills Assessment – Executive Brief

1. Take stock of the Agile skills and values important to you

Confirm the list of Agile skills that you wish to measure.

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.

3. Plan to assess your team

Determine the roll-out and communication plan that suits your organization.

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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.

Module 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

Outputs

1.1

Review and update the Agile skills relevant to your organization.

A list of Agile skills that are consistent with your Agile transformation

1.2

Define your Agile proficiency levels to evaluate attainment of each skill.

A list of proficiency levels to be used during your Agile skills assessment

1.3

Define your Agile team roles.

A confirmed list of roles that you wish to measure on your Agile teams

1.4

Define common experience levels for your Agile roles.

A list of experience levels common to Agile team roles (example: Junior, Intermediate, Senior)

1.5

Define the skill expectations for each Agile role.

Define the skill expectations for each Agile role

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Author

Ari Glaizel

Contributors

Saeed Khan, Founder, Transformation Labs
Joanna Tivig, Co-Founder and Author, NewGenP
Ryland Leyton, Agile & BA Capability Lead, Author
Ori Schibi, Senior Consultant, PM Konnectors

Search Code: 94507
Last Revised: October 8, 2020

TAGS:

Agile skills, being agile, doing agile, agile values, agile skills maturity, agile skills assessment, SFIA, thinking agile, scrum, agile transformation

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