Practice servant leadership by supporting and encouraging others in their endeavors so that they can perform at their highest level and continue to improve.
Identify and engage effective and empowered business stakeholder(s) through periodic reviews in order to ensure that the team is knowledgeable about stakeholders’ interests, needs, and
Define deliverables by identifying units that can be produced incrementally in order to maximize their value to stakeholders while minimizing non-value added work.
effectiveness of the organization as a whole.
Create systemic improvements by disseminating knowledge and practices across projects and organizational boundaries in order to avoid re-occurrence of identified problems and improve the
Challenge existing process elements by performing a value stream analysis and removing waste in order to increase individual efficiency and team effectiveness.
Prioritize the units of work through collaboration with stakeholders in order to optimize the value of the deliverables.
As the project unfolds, set and manage stakeholder expectations by making increasingly specific levels of commitments in order to ensure common understanding of the expected deliverables.
Establish a shared vision of the various project increments (products, deliverables, releases, iterations) by developing a high level vision and supporting objectives in order to align stakeholders’ expectations and build trust.
Create an environment of continued learning by providing opportunities for people to develop their skills in order to develop a more productive team of generalizing specialists.
Make planning activities visible and transparent by encouraging participation of key stakeholders and publishing planning results in order to increase commitment level and reduce uncertainty.
Seek feedback on the product by incremental delivery and frequent demonstrations in order to improve the value of the product.
Manage Stakeholder Expectations
Plan at multiple levels (strategic, release, iteration, daily) creating appropriate detail by using rolling wave planning and progressive elaboration to balance predictability of outcomes with ability to exploit opportunities.
Solicit customer and user feedback by reviewing increments often in order to confirm and enhance business value.