In our last capsule we have reviewed the second step of our path: “Creating and Launching Initiatives”.

Now, in this capsule, we will go to the third step of our path: the “Execution and Maturity”, of the teams and the environment. It integrates the next activities:

The first activity is the release planning

• Release plan, backlog, key assumptions and issues, delivery & opportunity frames are made here.
• Release planning is the starting way for a team to build a successful product: the focus is to learn fast, with a big vision and small steps.

The second activity is the “Product Review, Inspection and adaptation”, which is related with:

• The expectations management, inspect and adapt the process, to improve it, in order to impact the product that we are building.
• Remember that the Product that we are building is composed by several living hypothesis that we must fit, all the time with the client so that we need to realize it with the Business Owner som they know the product growth phase and the right expectative about it.

And the third is the “Team and product maturity”, which consist on:

• Team building, Team stabilization and Agile high performing team. From this moment on, one of the objectives to achieve, is the maturity of high-performance teams:
• They are highly motivated teams that create products with superior goals than those stablished, thus, we will have the standing up, stabilization and optimization of them, it is very important to have experienced agile coaches in these tasks so that they focus on team maturity acceleration.
• A priority is to create sustained peace of the team in a transparent environment.

Remember that some of the steps related to create high-performance teams, are the next ones (according to Tuckman, Dexter & Leoncini)

• Level 1: Guidance.
  • As a team we ask ourselves: Why I’m here?
• Level 2: Building trust
  • Where as a team we ask ourselves: Who are you?
• Level 3: Goal clarification.
  • We ask ourselves: What we are doing here?
• Level 4: Commitment.
  • As a team we question us about: How are we doing?
• Level 5: Implementation.
  • We ask ourselves as a team: Who does what, where and when?
• Level 6: High Performance.
  • As a team we define our: Own way of working.
• Level 7: Renovation.
  • The question is: Why continue?

Here is where specific frameworks by role can be very useful to close on an accelerated way the gap between the first step and the seventh step, Remember that we all time are in the forming state, we need to convey on that to the team so that they understand which as team changes in its composition those changes, guides us ever to reinforce newly these levels, remember that we will never be permanently on the 6th step, we are all the time at the 7th step and this process of team building is a nonlinear process, it can give us surprises.

That’s all for now, in the next capsule we will go to the fourth step of our path: Demand and Capability Management.