Delivering High-quality Agile Projects with Erica Menendez and Mariano Oliveti

Agile Coaches' Corner

This week, Dan Neumann and Justin Thatil, your hosts, are joined by Erica Menendez and Mariano Oliveti to discuss what it takes to deliver high-quality Agile Projects.

In this episode, they dive deep into what a successful Agile project looks like and describe the necessary steps to be taken in order to reach it.

Key Takeaways

• Clarify the purpose

• The company should have a purpose

• The culture you create should be in support of the purpose

• The products should align with that purpose

• Deeply understand the real needs of your users and meet those

• Adopting Agility can increase employee satisfaction

• Empower team members to take action in support of the company’s purpose

• Empowerment increases engagement

• Engaged and empowered employees tend to lead to happiness.

• Understand that the entire Team works towards a specific goal.

• Focusing on people is a crucial aspect of a successful Agile Project, optimizing the relationship with people, ensuring there is collaboration among them, and granting space for people to open up in a psychologically safe environment.

• Fear of criticism and resistance to feedback are barriers to address.

• Working in an Agile way allows more predictability.

• Agile Teams add transparency to their work and separate tasks into smaller parts, which enables them to look at things a lot more closely than traditional Waterfall.

• Transparency must appear at all organizational levels, having realistic expectations and empowering everyone to make decisions.

• Implement feedback loops. Be willing to pivot based on feedback.

• Foster continuous learning

• Embrace experimentation

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