Category: Glossary

Business Sponsor Engagement | Glossary

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Definition:

Having someone on the business side who has the time and inclination to work with the team is critical. Adopting agile methodologies, scrum requires changes on the business side of the development, not just the technical side.

An engaged business sponsor can help the team if it needs to push against entrenched business process, departments, or individuals in delivering valuable outcome to gain competitive advantage in the era of disruptive market. Business Sponsor, is the one who understand the market needs so as he is the person who promotes the success of the project who gets what is expected. Business sponsor accepting and giving positive feedback to team saying present project delivered more than past project will work wonders and help in getting more sponsors.

Further Reading:
Book:SUCCEEDING WITH AGILE Software Development Using Scrum by Mike Cohn

ACT | Glossary

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Definition:

Agile Champions Teams (ACT), a team of 16 or so individuals participate on the ACT on the team for around 6 to 24 months depending on their role and ability to commit time to the team. Members are chosen to equally represent all functions involved. ACT meets every other week for 2 hours and augments those meetings with occasional longer offsite meetings.

ACT resolved issues related to lack of stakeholder involvement in projects, the proper use and meaning of deadlines, and executive leadership misperceptions of what agile is and can do for the company. One of the developer from the ACT team expressed his views that the best things to come out of ACT is the wide-open, smackdown brown bag sessions where all are welcome to ask questions and share knowledge. These meetings helps uncover root challenges in agile, which could be addressed by ACT.

Further Reading:
Book: SUCCEEDING WITH AGILE Software Development Using Scrum by Mike Cohn