Topic

Individual Personal Development and Experimental Framework

Response

Contrary to some opinions, being a member of an agile team isn’t a recipe for a tranquil experience.

Individuals quickly learn that being part of an Agile team requires long periods of intense productivity, as they support the team to meet its key goals. Individuals are required on a daily basis to share with their peers their current activities and challenges. Rarely will they find themselves with prolonged periods of down-time.

Organisations need to create an Individual Personal Development and Experimental Framework that ensures individuals creativity and innovation potential is not suppressed when they become a member of an agile team. Some of the key characteristics of a suitable Framework are,

Individuals are granted a minimum amount of personal development time each month, when they can choose to pursue a personal interest.
The organisation adopts a rotational resource management approach that sees individual who have been fully engaged in a few teams for more than 9months, being considered for benching. A 1 month period away from the agile team allowing them to decompress and potentially take-up a number of small-focused initiatives that fuel their creativity and innovative potential.
Individuals become active members of a small number of communities. Communities are formed around specific disciplines, technologies, job families or functions, where each community serves to fuel creativity and innovation at a team level, or an organisational-wide initiatives or community identified topics.

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