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Three Essential Agile Failure Patterns in 7:31 Minutes—Making Your Scrum Work #12

by Stefan Wolpers | 2021-06-07 Agile and ScrumAgile Transition

TL; DR: Essential Agile Failure Patterns — When Noise Interferes with Signal

There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. When Scrum becomes an element of an agile transformation, the following three common essential agile failure patterns prove to be an exceptionally tough nut to crack for any Scrum Master.

📺 Join me and explore the consequences of foreseeable failure patterns and what you can do about them in a little more than seven minutes.

Three Essential Agile Failure Patterns in 7:31 Minutes—Making Your Scrum Work #12 — Age-of-Product.com

Update: I am running a poll on LinkedIn—join the voting: “What is your top agile failure pattern in organizations?”

Agile Leadership — A Brief Overview of Concepts and Ideas

by Stefan Wolpers | 2019-06-27 Agile and ScrumAgile Transition

TL; DR: Agile Leadership

I recently started aggregating my notes, links, and references related to agile leadership to understand better what it — in the context of an agile transition — may look like. In the end, becoming agile is not the goal of a transition; surviving as an organization is. Hence I appreciate whatever appeals to business leaders and their motivation to delve into agile ideas, frameworks, or practices.

Let’s examine some favorite ideas and concepts around agile leadership. (Please bear with me that the following text is rather bullet-point heavy to concentrate its information.)