Agile Project Management

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Task Summary
You are required to write and submit a 1500-word individual reflection about Agile ways of working
and Agile teams in preparation for your group assignment.
You will be expected to examine and reflect upon these concepts specifically: The Agile Mindset, a
shift from ‘command and control culture’ to self-organised teams, how reflection is an important
part of the Agile process and the concept of servant leadership and how your adoption of these will
support your group’s success.
– Bear in mind that you will be working in a group for Assessment 3 and there will be a
requirement to use agile ways of working in your team – this is a good opportunity for
you to focus on how these will prove most useful for you and your team in achieving
your assessment goals.
– The focus of this assessment is to give you an opportunity to reflect on the theoretical
knowledge you have developed and how you might put it into practice for your group
assessment.
– Your report will need to be 1500 words in length, although you will have the benefit of
an allowance of 150 words either more or less than 1500 words.
Please refer to the Task Instructions for details on how to complete this task.

ASSESSMENT 2 BRIEF
Subject Code and Title
MIS608 – Agile Project Management
Assessment
Reflection on Agile ways of working and Agile teams
Individual/Group
Individual
Length
1 500 words (+/- 10%)
Learning Outcomes
The Subject Learning Outcomes demonstrated by successful
completion of the task below include:
a) Undertake research to demonstrate an understanding of
Agile concepts, tools and techniques.
d) Reflect on the Agile process and the influence on the
individual’s professional development within the method used
in this subject with particular emphasis on Agile roles within
teams.
Submission
Due by 11:55pm AEST/AEDT Sunday end of Module 4.1. (Week 7)
Weighting
25%
Total Marks
100 marks

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Context
In professional life while some parts of a job require individual contribution but progressively more
work requires collaboration and group work.
Group learning is designed to help you to learn about the process of collaboration in preparation for
your career.
Agile teams and agile ways of working are becoming more prevalent in workplaces and it is likely
that you will be a part of an agile team in your career. However, agile is very different from the
more traditional ‘command and control’ management methods to which many people are
accustomed.
Reflective practice is a process of thinking about new experiences with a view of learning from them.
It is a form of personal response to new experiences, situations, events, or information. University is
the best place to learn, and reflection is considered a key part of the learning process for this course.
Gibb’s Reflective Cycle (n.d.)
The above model from Gibb shows the different learning modes of the reflective cycle. We expect
you to use this model as a framework for your “Reflection on Agile ways of working and Agile
teams”. You initiate your activity in this cycle with the description step where you discuss your prior
group work and your group work in this subject so far: how it has made you feel, your evaluation
and analysis of the group work process and your conclusions.
have examined important concepts of agile teams and ways of working.
Some of the concepts will be new to you and you will need to examine your thoughts about:
1
Description
2
Feeling
3
Evaluation
4
Analysis
5
Conclusion
6
Action Plan
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1. Describe your prior experience of group work and how it is progressing with your group to
date as you work towards Assessment 3.
2. What are your current feelings? Confident? Irritated? Confused?
3. Evaluate and analyse your personal experience for working in a group before, using a
personal example, to establish positive and negatives of the experience to make sense of it
in the quiet of introspection.
4. Draw conclusions about how – with your newfound knowledge of how Agile teams work –
you could have benefitted from doing things differently.
5. Draft a 5 step Action Plan including the following items:
a. What will you do to adopt an Agile Mindset?
b. How will you encourage the team to work in a self-organised manner?
c. How will you use Agile reflective practice to progressively improve team
performance?
d. How will you bring ‘servant leadership’ to your work in the team?
e. How do you believe this will help the team to achieve their goals?
It is expected that 40% of your assessment will focus on retrospective analysis, and 60%
will be forward planning to enable future success.
Reference
The University of Edinburgh (n.d.). Gibb’s reflective cycle. Retrieved from
https://www.ed.ac.uk/reflection/reflectors-toolkit/reflecting-on-experience/gibbs-reflectivecycle#:~:text=Gibbs’%20Reflective%20Cycle%20was%20developed,structure%20to%20learning%20f
rom%20experiences.&text=Conclusion%20about%20what%20you%20learned,changes%20you%20
might%20find%20appropriate.
Task Instructions
1. Write a 1500-word reflective report addressing the concepts of agile teams and agile ways of
working with a view to selecting three practices which you plan to implement within your group
in completing the group assignment.
2. Please structure your report as follows:
Title page: include a title page with the subject code and subject name, assignment title,
student’s name, student number and lecturer’s name.
Introduction (100-150 words): which will also serve as your statement of purpose for this report
– this means that you will tell the reader what you are going to cover in your report. You will
need to inform the reader of:
a. Your area of reflection
b. Key concepts in this reflective report
c. What the reader can expect to find in the body of the report
The body of the report (1000-1200 words): cover the concepts of agile ways of working and
team roles within agile teams. Consider how these might be applicable in helping your group be
successful in the group assignment which you need to complete. The following questions serve
to guide you writing in this reflection with question 1 – 5 carrying 40% of the weight of your
grade, and question 6 carrying 60% of the weight of your grade:
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1. Describe your prior experience of group work and how it is progressing with your group to
date as you work towards Assessment 3.
2. What are your current feelings? Confident? Irritated? Confused?
3. Evaluate and analyse your personal experience for working in a group before, using a
personal example, to establish positive and negatives of the experience to make sense of it
in the quiet of introspection.
4. Draw conclusions about how – with your newfound knowledge of how Agile teams work –
you could have benefitted from doing things differently.
5. Draft a 5 step Action Plan including the following items:
a. What will you do to adopt an Agile Mindset?
b. How will you encourage the team to work in a self-organised manner?
c. How will you use Agile reflective practice to progressively improve team
performance?
d. How will you bring ‘servant leadership’ to your work in the team?
e. How do you believe this will help the team to achieve their goals?
Conclusion: summarise the three most important elements you have learned from the
group assignment that you have uncovered via your self-reflection.
2. Format and Layout
Please use font Arial or Calibri 11 point, should be line spaced at 1.5 for ease of reading and page
numbers on the bottom of each page.
If diagrams or tables are used, due attention should be given to pagination to avoid loss of meaning
and continuity by unnecessarily splitting information over two pages. Diagrams must carry the
appropriate captioning.
Referencing
It is essential that you use appropriate APA style for citing and referencing research. Please see more
information on referencing here http://library.laureate.net.au/research_skills/referencing
Submission Instructions
Submit Assessment 2 via the Assessment link in the main navigation menu in MIS608 Agile Project
Management. The Learning Facilitator will provide feedback via the Grade Centre in the LMS portal.
Feedback can be viewed in My Grades.
Academic Integrity Declaration
I declare that except where I have referenced, the work I am submitting for this assessment task is
my own work. I have read and am aware of Torrens University Australia Academic Integrity Policy
and Procedure viewable online at http://www.torrens.edu.au/policies-and-forms
I am aware that I need to keep a copy of all submitted material and their drafts, and I will do so
accordingly.
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Assessment Rubric

Assessment
Attributes
Fail
(Yet to achieve
minimum standard)
0-49%
Pass
(Functional)
50-64%
Credit
(Proficient)
65-74%
Distinction
(Advanced)
75-84%
High Distinction
(Exceptional)
85-100%
Visual appeal, writing
style and presentation
of content
Title page
Font, spacing and
format are in
accordance with the
requirements of the
assignment brief
Appropriate use of
paragraphs, sentence
construction, spelling
and grammar
Adheres to the word
count requirement
30%
• No title page is
included.
• Incorrect font and
size is used with poor
line spacing and large
gaps in pagination or
tables or diagrams
run over onto the
next page
unnecessarily.
• No introduction
attempted.
• Conclusion not
attempted.
• Report is written as a
block of text with no
breaks in between
ideas. Separate ideas
cannot be clearly
discerned.
• Title page is included but
is missing most
information.
• Either incorrect font and
size is used or poor line
spacing and large gaps in
pagination.
• Introduction attempted
but very generic does not
clearly state the purpose
of the report and what
the reader should expect
to find in the body of the
report.
• Conclusion attempted
but does not include
summation of key
concepts discussed in the
report and/or key
conclusions or
recommendations.
• Title page is included
but is missing key
information.
• Some errors in font use
and line spacing. Some
pagination problems.
• Sound use of the
introduction but does
not clearly state either
the purpose of the
report or what the
reader should expect
to find in the body of
the report.
• Sound use of the
conclusion and
succeeds in either the
summation of key
concepts discussed, or
key conclusions or
recommendations, but
not both.
• Title page is included
with most required
information.
• Minor errors in font,
spacing and format.
• Good use of the
introduction which
clearly states the
purpose of the report
and what the reader
should expect to find in
the body of the report.
• Good use of the
conclusion and
succeeds in summation
of key concepts
discussed and key
conclusions or
recommendations.
• One idea or concept
per paragraph with 3-4
well constructed
• Title page is included
with all required
information.
• Font, spacing and
format are in
accordance with the
requirements of the
assignment brief.
• Excellent use of the
introduction which
secures the attention
of the reader, clearly
states the purpose of
the report and what
the reader should
expect to find in the
body of the report.
• Excellent use of the
conclusion which
succeeds in confident
summation of key
concepts and
conclusions and gives

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• Many errors in
spelling or grammar
obscure meaning of
what student has
written.
• Does not adhere to
the word count
requirement of 1500
words (greater than
+/- 20%)
• Paragraphs are used but
large blocks of text with
long sentences make it
difficult to understand
the ideas being
conveyed.
• Spelling or grammar has
errors but meaning
remains clear.
• Does not adheres to the
word count requirement
of 1500 words (+/- 20%)
• One idea or concept
per paragraph. Some
paragraphs could be
more succinctly
written.
• Minor spelling or
grammar errors.
• Adheres to the word
count requirement of
1500 words (+/- 10%)
sentences per
paragraph.
• No errors in spelling or
grammar.
• Adheres to the word
count requirement of
1500 words (+/- 10%)
the reader a clear
sense of next steps
required.
• Expert use of
paragraphs with 3-4
well constructed
sentences per
paragraph which
follow logically from
each other.
• No errors in spelling or
grammar.
• Adheres to the word
count requirement of
1500 words (+/- 5%)
Knowledge and
understanding
Agile teams
Agile ways of working
The Agile Mindset
40%
• Lack of understanding
of the required
concepts and
knowledge.
• Key components of
the assignment are
not addressed.
• Lack of application,
and reflection on
information to
provide clear
recommendations.
• Limited understanding of
required concepts and
knowledge.
• Some of the key
components of the
assignment are not
addressed.
• Limited application and
reflection to provide
clear recommendations.
• Adequate knowledge
or understanding of the
required concepts.
• A reasonable capacity
to explain and apply
relevant key concepts.
• Supports opinion and
information
substantiated by
evidence from research
to provide insights.
• Thorough
understanding of the
key concepts.
• Discriminates between
assertion of opinion
and information
substantiated by robust
evidence from the
research/course
materials and extended
reading.
• Well demonstrated
capacity to apply and
reflect on relevant
• Highly developed
understanding of the
field or discipline/s.
• Systematically and
critically discriminates
between assertion of
opinion and
information
substantiated by
robust evidence from
the research/course

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information to provide
clear
recommendations.
materials and
extended reading.
• Recommendations are
clearly justified based
on application and
reflection on
information.
Depth of Reflection and
reference to own
experiences
Demonstrates capacity
for reflection and
analysis of personal
insights
30%
• An inadequate,
unclear, unfocussed
or overview which
does not include
analysis or
personalization or
express meaningful
insights
• Minimal evidence of
any reflective and
analytical skills with
sparse expression of
unjustified views and
opinions. Descriptive
without any analysis
of thoughts or
feelings.
• Uses some examples to
support claims. Examples
require further
development to align to
the requirements of the
assignment brief
• Demonstrates a limited
understanding of the
reflective task. Mostly
descriptive with little
analysis of thought or
feelings.
• Uses relevant examples
from experience to
support claims. Makes
applicable connections
between ideas
• Demonstrates a
thoughtful
understanding of the
reflective take and
subject matter.
• Reflection and analysis
of own experiences is
consistently
personalized,
demonstrates
independent thinking
and expresses
meaningful insights
• Analysis of experiences
demonstrates a high
level of independent
thinking and expresses
meaningful insights.
Views and opinions are
readily expressed.
• Reflection and analysis
of own experiences is
consistently
personalized,
demonstrates
independent thinking
and expresses
meaningful insights
• Excellent analysis of
experiences
demonstrates a high
level of independent
thinking and expresses
meaningful insights.
Views and opinions are
readily expressed.