Situation
After attending Sketch’s webinar, “Crafting Retros Your Team Can’t Wait to Attend,” a university contacted Sketch and expressed a desire to improve the agile processes in which their development team operated.
The team was trying to replace an application for students to register for classes and needed to improve the way they work to achieve the deadline with the appropriate product.
Inconsistent agile methodologies
While it was understood that some members of the team had some prior awareness of agile mindsets and had already been leveraging some of these practices, there were others who were further behind or had little agile practice.
Some expertise is better than none, but it's hard to achieve the benefits of agile software delivery without consistency.
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Sketch conducted a lightweight team assessment and identified three ways to improve:
1. Knowledge transfer
Create shared understanding to alleviate reliance on Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and ease daily team operations.
2. Optimize software delivery tools
Identify one central source of truth for work (to avoid confusion, gaps, or duplicate work).
3. Establish a beat
Establish cadenced retrospectives and refinement (to help the team’s continuous improvement journey).
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