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3. Continued Support Each and Every Day
Where Agile has failed with other companies it seems that it was done with a big one-time kick-off without continued support. “I think I read once that a culture change takes 10 years, so …We continue to support Agile each and every day. That’s my primary role as Director of Agile Leadership, but I am well-supported by IT Directors, Product Owners, Agile Project Leaders, and even team members that have become great evangelists in their own right. The more you talk about it, the more they talk about it. Ways in which we continue to support Agile here are things like:
- Agile Excellence meetings every other month (the retro of all retro’s, so to speak)
- Scrum Powwow each week (cross-team current sprint, future sprint, and roadmap discussions)
- Team Building (with Xbox Kinect Tournaments for Agile teams to compete against one another)
- Celebrations (we did an Agile Roast for our 1st Anniversary this month and we have cake a lot for important sprint/release milestones)
- Agile Tours given to special groups of stakeholders or VIPs on request.
- Facility sponsor for Tampa Bay Agile Meet-ups along with helping to secure speakers and topics.
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- Agile Manifesto and other Agile-related posters highly visible throughout the IT work space.
It’s fun to hear people dropping the “A” bomb (that is mentioning Agile) at large scale events like our annual Coupon U with our franchises or corporate all-hands meetings. Agile is really a rock star around here!”4