8.5: Commitment Pledge - Video Tutorials & Practice Problems

<v ->Now let's summarize the content of lesson eight.</v> In this lesson, we discuss the next steps on your Agile journey. That includes bringing agility into your organization and also your action plan in building up your Agile skills and advancing your career. That spans from defining the Agile roll that you like to plan in the organization to achieving professional certifications and then successfully passing a job interview. So whether you are taking this course to join the Agile profession or to advance your own knowledge, you are now empowered with a competitive advantage and you have all the ability you need to improve product and project delivery in your own organization. As we do at the end of each lesson, I'm offering you a self based exercise. This exercise is different from all the prior lessons that I offered because it doesn't contain multiple choice questions. This one is your opportunity to unleash your inspiration and come up with the actions you would like to take on your journey to agility, your personal and your organization. There are two slides where you will finish the sentences that are started and put your own timelines next to each step that you would like to take. The outcome of this exercise will become your commitment pledge, your promise on your own way to agility. And once you finish this exercise, base all the five steps on a single piece of paper, or write them down. Add them to your digital calendar if you have it or frame it and put it on the wall in your office, just make it visible whichever way you prefer. You can use your imagination and plan it in a sprint format or aligned to your own milestones. However, once you do, commit to it. Similar to this scrum team committing to the scope of this sprint, they define it, but then they promise, they commit to it. Make these steps realistic and quantifiable. Similar to OCAIRS. This way you can say at any point in time whether you were able to achieve your Agile goals or not yet, don't plan them too far in advance. A reasonable scope to get you moving on the way is probably three to six months. And once you do start your journey, set up regular retrospectives to review your progress against your Agile goals. Now you are ready to start on this self-based exercise. So please pause this video and restart once you are done.