On Agile Maturity
Management loves measurements, especially those who work in traditional companies. When management wants to assess how much the team has improved after adopting Agile development, things like the Agile maturity model are usually presented to them. Everyone celebrates the results as the scores have improved from negative to positive after three months of hard work and dedication. Several years later, we revisited that team. Unfortunately, the team continues to practise the same things since we celebrated the improvement in Agile maturity. They continue practising what they learned, even if the industry has already abandoned some of the practices for years. They believe they are mature and that everything is going well. They refuse to change their current way of working. ...