Identification of the Agile Mindset and Its Comparison to the Competencies of Selected Agile Roles

In this paper we present the results of the identification and evaluation of the elements of an agile mindset as well as its comparison to the competence models for the roles of Scrum Master, Product Owner and agile analyst. We have identified 70 unique agile mindset elements from literature and 5 interviews with experts. Based on an opinion survey among 52 agile practitioners we evaluated the importance of 26 selected elements of the agile mindset to the effectiveness of an agile team. The competence models contain 29 competencies of a Scrum Master, 16 competencies of a Product Owner and 40 competencies of an agile analyst, divided into behavioral, technical and contextual ones. We discuss which agile mindset elements are important to each agile role. This paper is an extended version of the paper titled “On the Agile Mindset of an Effective Team – An Industrial Opinion Survey” presented at the 3rd International Conference on Lean and Agile Software Development LASD 2019 [28].

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