Badass Unscripted – Making Agile Teams vs. Making Teams Agile

Do you take an existing team and ‘make’ them agile?  Or do you build teams of agile people – people who have, or are likely to have, the right mindsets and openness to new practices?

Here is where the rubber hits the road when it comes to executive support;  do we do the easiest, most convenient thing, and expect them to squeeze the square peg of legacy mindsets, rigid thinking, and antiquated practice, and jam it into the round hole of agile beliefs and actions, or do we take the hit and scramble a team of cross-functional, experimental minds?