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Agile Transition

“Agile” Does Not Work for You? Tackling Fake Agility with Johanna Rothman at the 59th Hands-on Agile Meetup

TL; DR: Tackling Fake Agility with Johanna Rothman Your team is supposed to use an agile approach, such as Scrum.…

How Scrum Teams Fail Stakeholders and What You Can Do About It

TL; DR: How Scrum Teams Fail Stakeholders In this article, we uncover typical ways in which Scrum teams fail stakeholders,…

Sprint Anti-Patterns

TL; DR: Sprint Anti-Patterns Holding Your Teams Back Welcome to Sprint anti-patterns! This article covers the three Scrum accountabilities (formerly…

Getting Hired as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach

TL; DR: Getting Hired as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach Are you considering a new Scrum Master or Agile…

Agile Laws: From Conway to Goodhart to Parkinson to Occam’s Razor

TL; DR: Agile Laws in Software Development On many occasions, working with agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and…

Sunsetting Scrum Masters

TL; DR: Sunsetting Scrum Masters In this article, I uncover indicators that a Scrum Master’s or Agile Coach’s journey is…

Successful Scrum Masters

TL; DR: How To Spot Successful Scrum Masters In this article, I unravel the secrets of what makes a Scrum…

Why Succeed When You Can Fail? A Guide to Missing Sprint Goals

TL; DR: Missing Sprint Goals Do you excel in the art of setting unattainable, imposed, or plain non-existing Sprint Goals?…

The Scrum Trap: How Unfit Practices Will Harm Return on Investment

TL, DR: The Scrum Trap Scrum is a purposefully incomplete framework. Consequently, it needs to be augmented with tools and…

Escaping the Feature Factory

TL; DR: Escaping the Feature Factory — Refocussing From Output to Outcome The feature factory fate is not inevitable; there…