The Potential of Focusing on Individuals
Discover how enhancing individual skills and fostering a growth mindset contributes to more effective Agile teams. Learn strategies to systematically support technical staff development, increase productivity, and balance learning with applying expertise for long-term team strength.
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ABOUT THIS CHAPTER The Agile Manifesto stated that Agile values individuals and interactions over processes and tools. But Agile to date has focused much more extensively on processes than individuals, and its focus on individuals has been limited to the interactions around certain structured collaborations.
The principle “Develop a Growth Mindset” contributes to a general tendency to learn, but if that tendency is not developed into more than a general aspiration, the learning will be ad hoc and will not add up to much. If you agree with the idea that a team should finish each project stronger than it started, you need to allow time for that learning and you need a plan for it.
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