Reflective Report: Agile Ways of Working and Agile Team Dynamics

This report provides a self-reflection on personal and professional skills development while exploring agile ways of working within teams. It highlights the importance of team roles, communication, and flexible working policies in complex and changing environments. The author reflects on past experiences, including challenges faced in group projects and strategies used to improve team dynamics. The Gibb's reflective cycle is applied to analyze personal strengths and weaknesses, focusing on areas for improvement such as communication and team working skills. An action plan is proposed for future development, emphasizing the importance of continuous learning and adaptation to enhance overall performance in agile team settings. The report concludes that reflection is crucial for personal and professional growth, leading to improved performance and future success.

Reflection on Agile
ways of working and
Agile teams

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main body........................................................................................................................................3
Agile ways of working and team roles within agile teams.....................................................3
Gibb's Reflective Cycle..........................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

Introduction
Agile working can be defined as a technique through which several individuals can be
connected through various means for completion of a given task in the most appropriate manner.
The given report is self-reflection on personal and professional skills development while
exploring agile ways of working for completion of a specific task. The report will conclude three
practises out of all highlighted in the document for driving better efficiency for completion of
assignment tasks (Haider, 2020). Further, in the report Gibb's reflective cycle is also been taken
into consideration. Use of this model will be focused towards providing most secured future
success while undergoing several personal or professional life goals (Blasquez and Leblanc,
2018).
Main body
Agile ways of working and team roles within agile teams
Working in a group has been in trend since last few years in various organisation. This
not only polish once professional skills but also develops potential towards shaping individual's
personal life career to desired success. In my context, I was provided with 3 Assignments for its
completion with my group. Initially, during planning stages for major events that have to be
undertaken for completion of project tasks. I was provided with the work of researching and
finding all the relevant information that was suitable for completion of project under given
deadline. As current i.e. post assignment 1 and 2, we are heading to assignment-3. Now things
are more sorted out, every individual in the group is being given a different field of working and
exploring (Dalcher, 2019). Any doubts encountered during the project activities are being
discusses with the team members and thereafter if no conclusions are found is reported to our
mentor. On dividing our tasks and properly communicating all project activity which are to be
performed during the course of project, me along with my group mates feel confident about
developing a decent project by using resources in the most appropriate manner (Boniwell and
Tunariu, 2019).
I love performing a task in a team. Taking into consideration my post experience where I
worked on a large group project. In the group I found two of the members very introvert and
were not at all interested in taking part in decision-making activity of the group. This was
ultimately impacting on positive working environment of group, therefore I proposed an idea of

dividing large group into smaller teams. This dramatically made those introvert individuals vocal
and shared some fantastic ideas (Lancaster, 2019). It leads our project for its completion at said
deadline and also got appreciation for a good project on the result day. By working in agile team,
I developed various skills which relates to operating project activities in complex and uncertain
or changing external environment. I evaluated that, there is not any particular strategy or plan to
operate project activities at most efficiency. One of the area of working in which I was benefited
while working in an agile team was of adopting flexible working policies. As with the believe
due to changing external environment no fix plans or strategy could be helpful for proceeding
with an effective project (Costello, 2020).
Action plan
Plan Action Time required
Adoption of Agile Mind-set Agile mind-set could be
adopted through;
 Setting smaller goals,
 Learning from past
activities,
 Effectively
communicating.
Under 2 months
Encouraging team to work in
self-organised manner
Arranging team members to
work in a self-organised
manner could be done through;
 Establishment of small
checkpoints.
 Appreciating talent of
an individual
employee.
 Avoidance of cultural
blame.
2-3 months
Using Agile reflective
practises
Agile reflective practises guide
an individual to adopt factors
3-4 months

of changing working
environment (Latukefu and
Verenikina, 2020). This
practises are an inclusion of
creating a working
environment where a flexible
team working is being
initiated. Such practises can be
implemented by;
 Educating staffs about
agile reflective
practises.
 Bringing in change.
 Adoption of
innovative approaches.
Establishment of servant
leadership
Servant leadership will enable
an individual to work as a
team rather than only
approaching to personal
objectives. It can be
established through;
 Holding meetings
about discussing future
or current
organisational plans.
 Forming effective
employee relations.
 Decentralisation of
power whenever
required.
5 months

Achievement of team goals Team goals in an
organisational firm can be
achieved through;
 Adopting effective
management models.
 Taking agile reflective
practises into
consideration for
development of
organisational plans.
 Simplifying team goals
by proper monitoring
techniques.
4 months
Gibb's Reflective Cycle
Gibb’s reflective model is useful in terms of motivating people undertaking their self-
analysis in an effective manner to enhance their overall performance. Besides from this, it is
useful in terms of evaluating bod and good both the sides of decisions which are taken by the
employer. For this, some of the suitable steps are discussed as:
 Description: It is helpful in terms of offering suitable description like what is happening,
result and who is involved in the activities. For this, I undertake my current position as a
team leader and as per this my communication, team-working, time management,
problem solving and ICT skills that are present in me to deal with the organisational
condition and suitable changes regarding the behaviour of employees (Lovegrove, 2021).
I feel that I am pretty much good in research, time management, problem solving and
ICT skills as I can effectively manage to work in collective manner to achieve the
suitable objectives.
 Feelings: It constitute the emotions and feelings of different people via way of means of
which they could revel in my ordinary response and talents. This feeling happens to my
response and additionally effect my subordinates and their ordinary overall performance.
I as a crew leader, susceptible in conversation and crew running that ends in dis-stability

my crew and their ordinary overall performance. The cause at the back of that my
conversation talent does now no longer broaden transparency amongst my subordinates
that has a tendency to lower the general overall performance and morale. Due to this,
personnel sense anxious and de-stimulated due to the lack of coordination and
conversation. For this, most wide variety of people sense problem in phrases of sharing
their emotions however I want to encourage them via way of means of sharing
appropriate revel in concerning particular occasion.
 Evaluation: In this, people has a tendency to invite concerning their ordinary revel in of
enterprise scenario which is classed below situations both properly or horrific which
describe what went properly, what did now no longer move properly and the general
contribution. I am susceptible in few talents like conversation and crew running that ends
in effect the general overall performance of my subordinates and additionally create
confusion amongst them concerning the put off in productiveness (Trede and et. al.,
2019). Also, battle can end up foremost hazard for the general crew overall performance
because it arises due to the lack of conversation as personnel are not clean concerning
their overall performance and what's anticipated from them.
 Analysis: It ends in provide powerful danger as a way to make experience concerning
what's occurring within side the environment because it adopts distinguished questions
concerning my know-how and talents that ends in make experience for the activity. In
phrases of having paintings performed with my subordinates, I want to offer them
powerful danger to decide their strengths and weaknesses. I am additionally properly in
hassle fixing, crew control and studies and susceptible in conversation and crew running
as I want to paintings on those talents to broaden them for the health of myself (Trost,
2020). Because of my susceptible talents the productiveness of group of workers receives
negatively impacted and additionally has a tendency to beautify negativity of their mind.
 Conclusion: This step is beneficial as a way to offer confusion thinking about the matters
that arise for the duration of the occasion and additionally offer distinguished justification
to beautify the bring about future. I additionally want to summarise my mastering and
know-how to focus on the right modifications that I need in my personality. I am properly
in time control and hassle fixing that has a tendency to organised my crew in appropriate
manner. Along with this, I additionally want to broaden different talents thinking about

conversation and crew running wherein I am susceptible and additionally want right
enhancement via way of means of thinking about feedbacks from better stage authority
via way of means of taking take part in seminars to beautify my talents.
 Action plan: It represent the skills in which I need improvement and also develop my
skills in an effective manner in regard of surviving for the future conditions and situations
(Yager, 2020). It is pretty much useful to differentiate my activities as I did not develop
any plan regarding the development of my skill but make sure that I get enhancement in
suitable ways considering the learning skills. I need to determine that next time when I
work in a group I need to develop my communication and team working skills to make
things clear and develop transparency among my team members to develop effective
coordination and cooperation among them.
Conclusion
From the above discussion, it has been analysed that reflection is useful in determining the
personal skills and knowledge that is helpful for an individual to improve their overall
performance. Further, it leads to develop several skills that are considered and should be present
among the individual to perform task in significant manner in agile team. Also, Gibb’s reflective
model is used that has six effective stages that depict each and every action in an effective
manner by considering the feelings of other people and action is also taken to get desired
outcome for the future.

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