Let’s say you have an Agile team that is composed of team members with only I-shaped skills. Doesn’t sound good, does it? But collectively these I-shaped individuals have the all the skills necessary to deliver their stories. Maybe they do a great job of handing off work to one another. Starting to sound better? In this situation, it seems like T-shaped skills are more of a nice-to-have and the team is just fine with their I-shaped skills. Here are a few questions to ponder

When overcoming obstacles during the course of an Agile adoption the words "they're never gonna get it" can become a common phrase. These words are typically uttered in reference to the organization's executives that some people feel aren't fully capturing the essence of the Agile mindset. For instance, an Agile project a few years back was severely behind schedule. The executives decided to cancel sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives so that the teams could spend more ti