To measure is to know. If you can not measure it, you can not improve it. – Lord Kelvin
Like any other assessment, agility health assessment also happens at every state of agile implementation & that too frequently. We have used them in measuring the maturity of agile implementation at many levels – individual, team, group of teams in a program/portfolio and also at an organization level. And it is tweaked based on relevance.
The most common implementation happens at team level. And this is how we do it for a team which is using scrum approach –
Let’s discuss these steps in more detail.
Agility Health survey – this first step is to design an agility health survey which is relevant to your teams and project environment. Below is a basic step wise process which has worked for us.
Blocking stakeholder calendar & Sharing expectations – It’s important to set the context and purpose of the assessment with all the stakeholders to get their buy-in and ensure the effectiveness of the entire process. You will need to do the following :
Collect the Insights via a Survey Tool
Collating Insights
Present findings and create a growth plan with recommendations
Assessment is OVER but now the real action is to help the team in achieving the GROWTH PLAN 🙂
It may sound like any other assessment but it has its own distincts –
Here’s how a sample Agility Health Assessment chart will look like :