Value-Driven Agile Processes for High Performance
Leadership is about inspiring and motivating those around you. As a leader, you must check your behaviors before asking others to change. Transformational leadership supports high performance, effective communication, and collaboration toward the organization’s goals. A good leader impacts a team’s ability to deliver code, design systems, and apply Lean principles to their work. Transformational leaders set the tone for the organization and reinforce desired cultural norms.
Improve processes and manage work with work-in-process limits. Visualize outcomes to watch quality and communication throughout the team. Encourage and support learning. Support and help collaboration among teams. Support or embody transformational leadership. Like scale measures people’s perceptions by asking them to rate how they agree or disagree with a statement. It is hard to measure Velocity based on arbitrary Story Points. Development teams should understand the speed at which they can deliver working software.
When you change how you work, you change the routines and create a different culture. Use trunk-based development methods — to support test data management. Use a coupled architecture — architect for empowered teams. Make the flow of work visible through the value stream. Work in small batches. Have a lightweight change approval process.
Agility is about providing value. Completing 100 PRs in a week doesn’t matter if they don’t contribute to helping the business. Teams should be the keepers of their process. A project is not about code — it’s about delivering value to the customer. A value-driven agile process enables collaboration through open and consistent communication.
