🏋️ Mindset Gym: Where Your Brain Gets Gains
This mindset believes skills can be developed through effort and learning.
What is a growth mindset?
This type of team includes people with all the skills needed to deliver value.
What is a cross-functional team?
In traditional environments, this is often prioritized over delivering customer value.
What is following the plan?
This kind of leader removes obstacles and helps teams grow, rather than directing every move.
What is a servant leader?
Instead of saying “That’s not my job,” someone with an agile mindset might say this.
What is “How can I help?”
People with this mindset often avoid challenges and fear failure.
What is a fixed mindset?
This event happens daily and helps the team align.
What is a daily stand-up (or daily scrum)?
Agile replaces long projects with this shorter, iterative approach.
What are sprints (or iterations)?
A leader who asks “What do you need?” shows this type of thinking.
What is supportive (or servant) thinking?
Instead of blaming others, Agile culture encourages using this language.
“What can we learn?”
In an agile culture, we focus more on this than perfection.
What is progress (or learning) culture?
Agile teams often deliver value in this structured, time-boxed 2-week cycle.
What is a sprint?
When teams don’t do this, it’s hard to see progress, spot blockers, or stay aligned.
What is make work visible?
In Agile, leaders are expected to model this type of mindset.
What is a growth mindset?
This phrase replaces “We’ve always done it this way.”
“Is there a better way?”
This phrase reflects a shift from blaming to curiosity.
What is “What can we learn from this?”
Agile encourages getting this early and often from customers.
What is feedback loops?
Skipping this Agile practice leaves teams overcommitted and under-delivering.
What is capacity planning?
A leader who trusts the team to make decisions is demonstrating this.
What is empowerment (or trust)?
This term refers to the goals that guide teams to deliver what truly matters to the customer.
What are objectives (or value-driven objectives)
VIVA Goals.
A team that adapts quickly shows this key Agile trait.
What is flexibility (or adaptability)?
Instead of silos, Agile teams prefer to work in this way.
What is collaboration (or collaboratively)?
This habit, when leaders don’t trust their teams, creates dependency and slows down decision-making.
What is lack of empowerment?
Great Agile leaders help teams focus on this kind of value.
What is customer value (or business value)?
Saying “We failed” might be reframed in Agile as this.
What is “We learned something” (or “an experiment”)?