G’day, training & certification community! Last week, I let you know about our brand-new free course called Beginner’s Guide to Agile in Jira, designed by rock star @Andrew DeBell.
Inside that course is a tip sheet listing six concrete ideas to help you build your agile mindset. We want to hear from you with your real-life experiences putting these ideas in action.
This post is the third in a series (also check out the first idea and second idea!). In each, I’m sharing one of the tips, and you can comment on this post below with how you’ve put it into practice in your professional life. Our plan is collect our favorite advice in one post, then share it back with you—and put it on our website, for other folks to learn from.
Also: We’ll be awarding something special to our most engaged users throughout the series! 👀 🥳
Ready to get started with the third tip?
Agility is all about delivering maximum value to customers. When a customer's needs change, you need to respond quickly with an innovative solution.
Having an agile mindset means you're constantly looking for opportunities to innovate. This could mean improving your team's internal processes. Or enhancing features of the product you're building.
As you complete your daily tasks, think if there are ways to improve what you're doing. Analyzing and improving your team's work will be valuable for your future career.
Can you tell us about a method you use to make sure you’re regularly innovating?
Where do you have room to improve looking for ways to innovate?
Do you have a trick to jog your memory or help you flex your habit muscle so that you innovate more?
I’ll go first, to get you started with an example.
The truth is, I’m a creature of habit, so looking for ways to innovate is not my strongest suit—it doesn’t come naturally to me to think “how could we do this differently” on a super-consistent basis. However, that’s where my team comes in! I have a few teammates who are absolutely that kind of thinker (looking at you @Ben Thoma @Marshall Walker Lee @Seema Seehra) so I make it a habit to either *actually* ask them, or ask myself: what might those folks wonder about or question around a process or idea.
How do you look for ways to innovate? Share below—and don’t forget to check out the course!
Enroll today in the free course: Beginner’s Guide to Agile in Jira
Read the first post in the series: Tip #1: All about respect
Read the second post in the series: Tip #2: Communication!
Read the fourth post in the series: Tip #4: Actively improve your skills
Read the fifth post in the series: Tip #5: Ditch perfectionism
Read the sixth post in the series: Tip #6: Be ready to PIVOT
Jaime Netzer
Product Marketer, Atlassian University
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