Agile practices help reduce the common problems affecting people working together towards a goal. They address controllable behaviours and processes that we have agency over.

If you recognise any of these internally created challenges, then you’re not alone.

Competing and changing priorities
Unfinished and unexpected work
‘Scope creep’
Ambiguity around objectives
Misunderstanding of detail
Poor visibility of progress
Slow decision making
Internal blockages and impediments hindering progress
Bottlenecks, handoffs and queued work causing delay
Overload or apparent under utilisation
High volatility in individuals’ workload
Low engagement and morale

Collaboration effectiveness
Poor teamwork
Communication breakdowns
Low responsiveness and flexibility to change
Slow time to market
Estimation and forecasting difficulty
Low predictability of work
Missed or ‘artificial’ deadlines
Customer dissatisfaction
Product market fit
Quality issues or re-work
Arcane processes