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Agile Transition

Stakeholder Trust

TL; DR: Stakeholder Trust Trust is the beginning of everything. I am hesitant to recycle an old slogan of a…

Prisoners of Retrospectives — Making Your Scrum Work #24

TL; DR: Prisoners of Retrospectives There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with…

Scrum Developer Anti-Patterns

TL; DR: Scrum Developer Anti-Patterns After covering the anti-patterns of the Scrum Master, the Product Owner, and the stakeholders, this…

36 Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns

TL; DR: Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns Learn how individual incentives and outdated organizational structures — fostering personal agendas and local optimization…

15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns Holding Back Scrum Teams

TL; DR: 15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns Are we still on track to accomplish the Product Goal? Moreover, how did the…

21 Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns Impeding Scrum Teams

TL; DR: Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns What event could better embody Scrum’s principle of empiricism than the Sprint Retrospective? I assume…

Scrum: 20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns

TL; DR: Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns The Sprint Planning is a core event that defines how your customers’ lives will improve…

27 Product Backlog and Refinement Anti-Patterns

TL; DR: 27 Product Backlog and Refinement Anti-Patterns Scrum is a tactical framework to build products, provided you identify what…

Daily Scrum Anti-Patterns: 24+2 Ways to Improve as a Scrum Team

TL; DR: 24+2 Daily Scrum Anti-Patterns In my experience, the Daily Scrum is the Scrum event with the highest anti-pattern…

Scrum Master Success: How Do You Identify a Successful Scrum Master?

TL; DR: Scrum Master Success — My Top-Nine Indicators How would you know that your Scrum Master is competent? What are…