A remedy for sudden ratio deterioration is root cause analysis followed by implementation of improvements. In most cases, an experienced team coach’s support is substantial enough to ensure that a team gets quickly back on track. At the same time, this situation presents an opportunity to instill improvement habits in team members. It is a tough experience, and it may be difficult for team managers to explain to their bosses why successes turned into failures. As a team coach, work to ensure that those bosses come to the proper conclusions.
In this part of the article I have introduced the commitment-to-progress ratio as a measure that helps establish how far the team is able to embrace their tasks. I also described some positive and negative scenarios of relations between the committed and delivered work every team might be faced with. In part 2, "The Factors that Influence the Commitment-to-Progress Ratio" I will answer the question “How one can build a team that achieves a high commitment-to-progress ratio?” and present the core skills and factors that influence the ratio.
About the author
Aleksander Brancewicz helps agile teams achieve outstanding results. In his career he has coached teams comprising of agile newbies as well as very experienced agile team members. Besides agile team building his areas of interest are new media product management and software architecture. He lives together with his wife and daughter in Amstelveen in the Netherlands.
