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Agile Transition

The Oversized Product Backlog Will Cost You Dearly — Making Your Scrum Work #11

TL; DR: The Oversized Product Backlog Problem — When Noise Interferes with Signal There are plenty of failure possibilities with…

The Frustrated Scrum Master — When all the Effort Leads Nowhere

TL; DR: The Frustrated Scrum Master — When all the Effort Leads Nowhere There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum.…

Why Scrum Requires a Failure Culture — Making Your Scrum Work #10

TL; DR: Scrum Failure Culture: A Requirement to Be Successful There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that…

The Developers Code Fallacy — Making Your Scrum Work #9

TL; DR: The Developers Code Fallacy — They Should Talk to Customers, Too, Though There are plenty of failure possibilities…

Three Wide-Spread Stakeholder Failures in 6:05 Minutes—Making Your Scrum Work #8

TL; DR: Three Wide-Spread Stakeholder Failures There are plenty of Scrum stakeholder failures. Given that Scrum is a framework with…

Sprint Acceptance Gate? — Making Your Scrum Work #4

TL; DR: The Sprint Acceptance Gate There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework…

Data-Informed Retrospectives

TL; DR: Data-Informed Retrospectives In their book Agile Retrospectives, Esther Derby and Diana Larsen popularized the idea that a Sprint…

A Sprint Review without Stakeholders — Making Your Scrum Work #3

TL; DR: A Sprint Review without Stakeholders There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a…

The Hardening Sprint Fallacy — Making Your Scrum Work #2

TL; DR: The Hardening Sprint Fallacy There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework…

Product Backlog Defense – Common Patterns of Stakeholder Interference

TL; DR: Product Backlog Defense Make no mistake: Your Product Backlog is the last line of defense preventing your Scrum…