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Agile Core Practices

Looking at the core Agile practices from the Agile Practice Guide is a great way to see if a team is really Agile, even when they may call themselves something different.  This is direct from the Project Management Institute and Agile Alliance.

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The Whole Team Approach

The Whole Team Approach means involving everyone with the knowledge and the skills necessary to ensure project success. What that means is instead of having to gather different people from all around the organization or another area to actually work on your project in little bits and pieces, we’re including them all in the one, whole team. They’re one hundred percent dedicated to the project and can really deliver much more quickly.

The team should be relatively small, as successful teams have been observed with as few as three people and as many as nine people. The reason for that is when you’ve got only three people, the communication channels are much smaller and much easier. You can’t have a lot of side conversations or a lot of extra conversations on scope, and overall the communication is much simpler. When you’ve got twenty people for example or many different people you could have conversations in many different channels, and from many different people as well.  All of a sudden the communication becomes a lot more complex.

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