Are you about to start using agile practices? Are you ready? Have you been using agile practices for a while? How instilled are the various practices within your team?
For teams about to embark on an agile journey - how ready are they? Yes, you could just start by creating enough of a product backlog for your first sprint and start. But - starting with a readiness assessment helps you understand the environment your are in, and, what impediments may be at play. You can then make plans to improve those things before or more so during the first pilot groups using agile practices.
This assessment can be done at a higher level in the organization using a quick 10 assessment area instrument - or - you can look at individual groups such as a team or a group of teams using a more detailed instrument that examines about 25 areas.
Maturity assessments should be used as tools to guide improvements over points in time. Various areas will gain or loose maturity as a team's focus and ability changes.
Using a high level assessment is good for a larger number of teams together.
Using a detailed assessment is good to narrow in on a particular teams' needs for improvement. They can use the assessment results in their retrospectives to guide their improvement activities.
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