The Agile Fluency Model with Michael J. Tardiff

Diana Larsen and James Shore co-founded the Agile Fluency Project with the goal that every team should work at the level of fluency that best fits their business’ needs. The Agile Fluency Model describes an agile team’s pathway. You can use the model to chart a course for the team, create alignment with management, and secure organizational support for improvement.

A successful team begins as a collection of individuals with complementary technical skills.

As the team adopts agile practices, a team culture shift occurs: instead of planning in terms of technical considerations, such as software layers or modules, the team now plans in terms of business, customer, or user benefit, exhibiting Focusing fluency.

Mastery of technical practices like test driven development requires greater investment and, usually, more time. Once a team skills shift occurs that eliminates technical limitations to delivering working software, the team exhibits Delivering fluency.

Where circumstances require, the team may internalize the capability to understand and address market needs. When an organizational structure shift moves key business capabilities inside the team, the team may exhibit Optimizing fluency.

Join us at our July session where Michael J. Tardiff will give an overview of Agile Fluency and how it can help guide your teams and organization.

Your Speaker:

Michael J. Tardiff loves hearing what people want to do and helping them see the ways in which they might do it. In doing the work, we discover together the work that needs to be done. His aim is to live in happiness and share it with others. He tries to be helpful, and failing that, kind.

As a colleague of Diana Larsen’s, Michael discovered the Agile Fluency Model over five years ago, and found he was appreciating how it looked not at “maturity” or advancement, but at how teams truly learn, grow, and flourish.