Safety is a mandatory prerequisite for the success of any Agile transformation.
Leaders cannot create safety for teams if they do not feel safe themselves. This is influenced not by the leaders they report to (including the board), but also whether or not they have overcome their own insecurities.
David Koontz, a practicing Agile coach, shared an excellent list of twenty Agile team exercises on his blog, Agile Complexification Inverter. This includes the Marshmallow Challenge I wrote about in an earlier post. There’s some real gems, so take a look!
Imagine a team that admits mistakes, reinforces their shared values, forgives one another, and moves on. Do you think such a team would come up with astonishing ideas? I do.
— Lyssa Adkins, Coaching Agile Teams
