Agile team challenges

Last updated Jun 5, 2023

Challanges:

• Value delivery
• Business collaboration
• Team dynamics and culture

[Agile manifesto](danielesalvatore/project-management/agile-project-management/agile-manifesto.md#Value delivery)

Signs:

• Missing expected delivery dates
• Burned out
• Too many items “in progress”
  • Work in Progress

Solutions:

• More demos of the solutions
• Use Retrospective
• make sure that everyone understands what “done” means
  • Definition of done
• Focus on only a few User stories per Sprint

[Agile manifesto](danielesalvatore/project-management/agile-project-management/agile-manifesto.md#Business collaboration)

Signs:

• You might notice that the team is overwhelmed with critical feedback or changes requests
• “Us vs. Them” mentality between the team doing the work and management

Solutions:

• Addressing critial feedback and change requests by doing more demos
• Conducting a solution design Sprint
• Ensuring changes to the Product backlog are introduced only in between sprints

[Agile manifesto](danielesalvatore/project-management/agile-project-management/agile-manifesto.md#Team dynamics and culture)

Signs:

• Low team morale
• Lots of conflicts
• Low conflicts
  • The team may be worried about having an open discussion

Solutions:

• Run a team brainstorm session
• Change up the workflows
• Take a training class together
• Retrospective