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Scrum anti-patterns

Can Pure Scrum Actually Work?

TL; DR: Pure Scrum? Can you rely on pure Scrum to transform your organization and deliver value? Not always. While…

Product Owner Anti-Patterns — 33 Ways to Improve as a PO

TL; DR: Product Owner Anti-Patterns No other role in Scrum can contribute to mediocre outcomes like the Product Owner—garbage in,…

Ditch the Unfinished Action Items: How to Make Retrospectives Lead to Real Change

TL; DR: Unfinished Action Items: How to Make Retrospectives Useful If your team consistently creates action items during Retrospectives but…

Transformation to Agile Primitives: Rebuilding Agility from the Ground Up

TL;DR: A Guide to Escape Agile Framework Fatigue Undergoing a transformation to Agile Primitives from a botched [insert your failed…

From Transparency to the Perils of Oversharing

TL; DR: Why Too Much Transparency Can Have a Detrimental Effect While transparency is often touted as essential in Agile,…

You Don’t Get Paid to Practice Scrum

TL; DR: Why Solving Customer Problems Instead Matters Scrum is just a tool; your job is to solve real customer…