I was just thinking that I haven’t really blogged anything about
my work role
Now I’m not saying that I’m any good, in fact with my
condition for a lot of the time I just think I’m mediocre !!
Soooooo, some very simple thoughts on Agile as I’m having to
try and re-establish my connection with Agile.
There appear to be three elements that I’m struggling with
recognising for myself, I think they are key to me getting my ‘Agile MOJO’ back
!!
1.
Being more flexible in my attitude and actions.
2.
Knowing & Believing in the Agile mindset
3.
Understanding where I am on the Agile continuum
Now I know that when I was executing my role well, I was I
hope flexible in my attitude and my actions.
I was a Scrum Master and I was there to be inward facing and benefit the
team by removing impediments, running a lot of the Agile ceremonies and generally
just ‘getting it’, that is Agile.
Getting that we needed to be a team that commited to a feasible set of
stories and delivered them in a sprint. No blame just the ability to facilitate
velocity as an Agile scrum team. For Agile to work, all the team need to let
go, let go of the command and control philosophy that has driven our IT for so
many years. We need to be able to then trust
what we as a team commit to and the actions we take to deliver the backlog for
our Product Owners. We need to be able
to look retroactively at our prior Sprint/work and have an open, honest and
constructive discussion about what works, what didn’t work and what might
work. Basically remaining flexible in
our attitude and our actions. I hope
that makes sense.
Now I think I believed in the Agile mindset, which
effectivelty for me was believing in the Agile manifesto. People over Processes etc. I’m struggling to get fully back to that
position in my head because my last 2 projects before I was off unwell had
allowed me to question my own contribution and then allowed me to question the
agile mindset as I was struggling with
my teams to deliver the backlogs for the Product Owners. Not just me, but a whole team, though I was
laying the blame primarily at myself. I
have been reading a lot of Agile texts to try and reconnect with the Agile
manifesto and the Agile mindset, feels like its alluding me but perhaps its
just around the corner as I am feeling a tad more optimistic at work.
I would have said that I was quite advanced on the Agile
continuum but as I have questioned everything else about myself I have
questioned this as well. Concerned that I
have in the past effectively been lying to myself. I’m worried that I now might make the same
decisions that I used to make in Waterfall though those decisions may now be
outdated and not fit with Agile, a sort of resorting to a comfort zone in my
old IT world. I need to rely on my own
ingenuity to help facilitate projects and work as well as the Agile mindset and
believe that I can recover my place on the Agile continuum. I need to move away from a reliance on ‘tried
and true’ to a position of ’inpsect and adapt’ ! It may also be hard as moving away from ‘tried
and true’ might seem counter-intuitive. So
my condition means that I blame myself for most things that go wrong on any
project, even if it’s not my actions that have resulted in a specific outcome.
One problem I’m always fighting for some reason is my
catastrophic thinking so even though I have never been performance managed I
seem to always think it’s just around the corner.
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