{"id":36,"date":"2006-03-08T17:33:03","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T00:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/wp\/?p=36"},"modified":"2006-03-08T17:33:03","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T00:33:03","slug":"enterprise-agile-training-and-building-common-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2006\/03\/08\/enterprise-agile-training-and-building-common-understanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Agile: Training and Building Common Understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"

In reading Scott’s reply<\/a> to the Enterprise Agile post<\/a>, I got to thinking: how much training do you need? In this area, training serve two purposes in my mind:<\/p>\n

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  1. the education everyone on the topic.<\/li>\n
  2. to give everyone a shared understanding of the topic.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There’s tons of material and practices on Agile out there. While you can suck it all in, getting a group of people to effectively use a sub-set of those practices demands a fair amount of training to build up a common understanding that the group can use. In doing Agile, I’ve spent a lot of time simply level-setting the group’s understanding of how we were using Agile terms and practices.<\/p>\n

    Of course, this is par for course with any skill\/practice you do in a team. The point is to reinforce that even teams who are swanky enough to be doing Agile need to build that common understanding.<\/p>\n

    A Funny Example<\/h2>\n

    During a retrospective<\/a>, we were asked how well the ScrumMaster had been doing. I said immediately that I didn’t think we had a ScrumMaster because, frankly, no one had ever said “so and so is the ScrumMaster.” Now, I know what a ScrumMaster is (I’m one myself), I just hadn’t been told we had one. It turns out the ScrumMaster was my good friend Divakar<\/a>…who was my boss<\/i> at the time. So, I ended up red-faced due to a subtle understanding.<\/p>\n

    Point being: even Enterprise Agile can do with a hefty, hefty dose of declarative living<\/a>…least I continue to get wonderful chances to make an ass of myself ;><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In reading Scott’s reply to the Enterprise Agile post, I got to thinking: how much training do you need? In this area, training serve two purposes in my mind: the education everyone on the topic. to give everyone a shared understanding of the topic. There’s tons of material and practices on Agile out there. While […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}