Sprint After Sprint After Sprint… When Did This Stop Feeling Like Progress?

About this episode

The episode discusses the disconnect between perceived high performance in Agile teams and the actual feelings of team members.

Sprint After Sprint After Sprint… When Did This Stop Feeling Like Progress? Here’s a question I want you to sit with for a moment. When you picture a high-performing Agile team — what do you see? Fast delivery? Clean boards? Strong velocity? Stakeholders who are happy and aligned? Now let me ask you a harder question. In that picture — how does the team feel? Because I’ve been in organizations that had all the first things. And absolutely none of the second. And I will tell you from experience: that is not high performance. That is a machine consuming the people inside it. And machines don’t have retrospectives when they break down. They just — stop. How to connect with AgileDad: - [website] ⁠https://www.agiledad.com/⁠ - [instagram] ⁠https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/⁠ - [facebook] ⁠https://www.facebook.com/RealAgileDad/⁠ - [Linkedin] ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/leehenson/

People in this episode

Host: V. Lee Henson

Topics covered

• Agile teams
• high performance
• team dynamics
• stakeholder alignment
• sprint process

Keywords

• Agile
• performance
• sprint
• team
• stakeholders
• velocity
• retrospectives

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