As a scrum master and/or a coach to your Agile team, do you ever question yourself – how is your team performing on the Agile scale? Is there some room for improvement? How mature is your team in its Agile thinking?
I recently came across these 22 good agile practices that focus more on Lean, and serve as a good scale to measure how mature your team is in Agile best practices. Each practice mentioned below can be rated on a scale of 0 – 2.
- o – if you never do it.
- 1 – if you sometimes do it.
- 2 – if you consistently do it.
Even though this scale measures between 0-2, remember the spirit of Kaizen that refers to constant improvement. So if you have mastered all these practices and have attained a 2, still keep going to 3,4,5…..
| # | Good Practice | Score (0-2) |
| 1 | Team Roles Assigned | 0 |
| 2 | Team Includes Skills Needed | 0 |
| 3 | Teams Conduct Sprint Preparation Activity | 0 |
| 4 | PBIs Regularly Groomed | 0 |
| 5 | Sprint Goals Drive Sprint Planning | 0 |
| 6 | Sprint Planning Includes Full Team | 0 |
| 7 | Sprint Planning – Stories Prioritized | 0 |
| 8 | Every Work Item is A Story & Sized | 0 |
| 9 | Exit Criteria Defined & Acceptance Test Run | 0 |
| 10 | Team Uses Sub Tasks | 0 |
| 11 | Standups Held & Attended | 0 |
| 12 | Scrum of Scrum are held | 0 |
| 13 | Incomplete Stories, Resized & Carry Over | 0 |
| 14 | Team Velocity Established | 0 |
| 15 | Team Conducts Code Reviews | 0 |
| 16 | Team Conducts Sprint Demos | 0 |
| 17 | Team Documents Retrospective +/- | 0 |
| 18 | Sprint Progress Tracked Daily | 0 |
| 19 | Burn Down Charts & Reports Reviewed Daily | 0 |
| 20 | Team Strives to Minimize WIP | 0 |
| 21 | Team is Aware of Sprint Cycle Times | 0 |
| 22 | Team Knows its Velocity | 0 |
| TOTAL: | 0 |