What's stopping you?

Every single one of you reading this post is at a different stage in your agile journey.  Some of you have been on agile teams for a year or more.  Some of you are about to start with a new team.  Some of you bring learnings from other places.  Some of you are just taking your first steps toward embracing and living the agile values and principles.  I think the fact that we're all in a different place, and looking at things with different lenses is AWESOME!

With all of this perspective - we truly have the opportunity to work together to help our company become a more agile place. 

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  If you've got a few years of learning under your belt - how can you incorporate YOUR
  learning into our agile teams, and to support our agile managers?
• If you've been into this journey for about a year - what can you share with your agile manager and your peers about what you've learned?
• If you are new(er) to all of this - what are you doing to experiment, fail fast, and share what you've learned?

Being agile isn't following some new process, or attending different meetings.  It's living and breathing a common set of values and principles together.  We do teach teams new ways of working together (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) because it helps enable teams to truly BE agile together, but that doesn't mean that you, no matter where you are in your agile journey, can't embrace, live and show the agile values and principles every day.

Things to try that only cost you a little bit of time-

• Invite a peer who is on an agile team for coffee and ask them how they work differently and what they've learned.
• Ask a Scrum Master to let you sit on a team event (retrospectives are off limits - team members only - but everything else is open for discussion.)
• Attend a training event put on by company's Agile Transformation team.

On an agile team already, but still learning every day?

• Volunteer to share some of your experiences and learnings with your peers at a team meeting.
• Share the agile values and principles with someone who partners with your agile team, and talk about how you all work differently.
• Invite a partner or team member to "ride along" with you for a sprint (remember - Retros are for TEAM members only!)

Been on this journey for a while?

• Volunteer to mentor a new Product / Marketing Owner or a Scrum Master.
• Offer to be a sounding board / pressure tester / fresh set of eyes for a sister agile team.
• Help your manager test and learn new ways of supporting and developing the rest of their team members.

You're an agile manager supporting folks on an agile team?

• Use your next touch base to ask how you can enable your team member to better live the agile values and principles.
• Instead of solving the next problem for your team member - challenge (educate, enable and empower) them to solve it for themselves.
• Share your agile journey with other managers.  Let them see how you are embracing the agile values and principles as you support and develop your team members.

This is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to helping our Wells Fargo to be a more Effective, Efficient and Engaged place to deliver value to our customers.  I'm sure there are tons of other ideas and things that we can all do. 

I'd love to hear from you! 

• Did you try one of the suggestions above? 
• Did you try something different?   

Add comments below and tell us all what you shared or what you learned (if you're not logged into Confluence, your comments will be anonymous - so if you're shy - we won't know who you are!)

Remember - we all win together - so what's stopping you from helping yourself, your team and our company become more agile?