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  4. Making Strong Agile Teams
  5. Self-Actualized Agile Teams

Building Agile Mindsets

Agile team work doesn't just happen out of nowhere. It's earned and maintained on the team by the team itself. Read more about the Agile team hierarchy of needs.

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Agile Team Strength is Continuously Maintained

Team strength is not measured in how much work they can get done. In Agile environments it's measured in agility. Teams should build strong foundations of celebrating team mates, supporting growth, taking risks, and experimenting with new ways of working to successfully deliver strong results.

The philosophies of Agile must be constantly maintained, just like a garden must be watered and upkept.

Team members check in with others and everyone acts in support of everyone's growth.

What does someone's level of agility depend on? 5 things! Read more below.

Foundations of Strong Agile Teams

Everyone on an Agile team leads in service to others: the interns, the junior contributors, the managers, and the executives.

At its core, all Agile teams who are strongly performing have the following principles built among the team within their culture:

There is a Pyramid of Agile Tenets that makes self-actualized Agile teams.

Read more about these tenets:

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Agility changes over time, and it doesn't happen all at once. This is because it requires a .

This picture shows the hierarchy of Agile team needs and what must be in place before teams can .

Without a foundation of psychological safety and service leadership, teams cannot become strong Agile teams. They will longer. They may storm forever, and never get to . They won't get as much work done either!

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This picture shows the hierarchy structure of the tenets with Agile teams. Psychological safety must be grown on teams before they can grow in their agile practice. Servant leadership enables self-organization. Self-organization enables continuous improvement. Credit: Tech Fleet
Your agility on teams evolves and grows over time as teams work on it. Agililty must be maintained. Credit: Tech Fleet
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