Psychological Safety in Agile

What does psychological safety have to do with Agile?

Without a culture of psychological safety your retrospective meetings will fail to deliver value to your teams - and by extension, your business.

At best, you get a status meeting to recap the work of the sprint.

At worst, you create an environment of blame and shame that erodes the team's ability to self-organize and self-heal.

At Inclusive Agile we want all teams to feel safe to show up authentically and do their best work. The only way to do that is to address the inclusion issues that can get in the way.

Some things to consider that might be affecting your teams’ effectiveness:

• How might your planning meetings change when you take into consideration the neurodiversity of your team?

• Are you sensitive to how team capacity might be impacted by team members needing to process difficult events happening in the Black (or other marginalized) community?

• Is the one woman on your all-male dev team actually quiet?  Or has she been told to “calm down” so many times that she no longer contributes to retros?