People Shape the Process: Adaptation and Communication
Explore how to successfully adapt Agile processes within large teams by implementing gradual changes and fostering open communication. Understand the importance of patience and team involvement in overcoming resistance to change and improving project outcomes through better collaboration and process refinement.
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Adaptation
No process is a perfect fit for any organization, project, or team. Agile processes are no exception. This means we must adapt each process for our project to be successful.
Be flexible about getting there, but be inflexible in the focus.
– Martin Fowler Researcher and expert in UML, patterns, and agile software development methodologies and author of the book “Refactoring.”
This means it is not enough to embrace the changes to our customer’s requirements. We must also evolve and make the necessary modifications to the process and welcome them. The ability to do this comes from retrospectives. However, we must allow time for ourselves, our team, and our company to embrace the change. Do not overreact if something is not working immediately because introducing a new process always means a cost in time, a change, and even more important, the common initial reaction to every change—rejection.
Installing an agile process is a major change on its own. We can use an existing agile process as a starting point and ...