Shu-ha-ri: Measuring Agile Adoption Maturity

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Shu-Ha-Ri is the journey that Aikido martial arts students go through to evolve from novice towards eventually achieving mastery. Alistair Cockburn introduced it to the Agile community in 2006 as a metaphor for measuring where an Agile team is on their journey towards achieving Agile Maturity. While the metaphor is helpful, more detail is needed to create something actionable by an organization. Based on our multi-year experience applying the Shu-Ha-Ri metaphor for specific client scenrarios, this presentation describes our assessment framework for various types of Agile journeys associated with distributed enterprise Agile programs. We introduce the basic concepts of Shu-Ha-Ri, then expand on that with in-depth descriptions of this practical assessment framework with some real world examples of how to apply it to measure and improve the overall maturity of your Agile team.