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Empowered Agile Teams

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An Agile Team feels empowered when they feel they have a significant amount of control over several aspects of their work. The five key contributing factors are:

The objectives and key results have been agreed with their stakeholders and business leaders, rather than simply being imposed on them.
A series of ceremonies, for example stakeholder reviews have been scheduled and they’re well attended, which allow the agile team to receive direct unsanitised feedback on their work-product at regular intervals, which allows them to make the necessary adjustments as they go.
The Agile Team consists of the right people with the right skills, which allows them to work autonomously across the entire life cycle, co-designing, co-creating, co-delivering and co-supporting the product, solution or service.
The Agile Team is able to develop an close and unobstructed relationship with their end customers and users, so that they can determine for themselves the true needs and wants.
Most importantly, there is a clear separation between the definition of the what and the how. Stakeholders and business leaders have set a clear expectation of objectives and key results; the What. The Agile Team has the freedom to determine the how best to meet these objectives and key results, free of micromanagement and interference.

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