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Scrum anti-patterns

What Capacity Check? — Making Your Scrum Work #23

TL; DR: Ignoring the Capacity Check during Sprint Planning There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Since Scrum is…

Maximizing Utilization, Ignoring Slack Time — Making Your Scrum Work #22

TL; DR: Maximizing Utilization as a Relic from the Industrial Management Past There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum.…

Overruling the Product Owner? — Making Your Scrum Work #21

TL; DR: Overruling the Product Owner There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Since Scrum is an intentionally incomplete…

Scrum Questions: Seven Simple Issues and Complex Answers from LinkedIn Polls

TL; DR: Scrum Questions: Seven Simple Issues and Complex Answers How hard can Scrum be; the manual has 13 pages?…

Should Managers Attend Retrospectives? — Making Your Scrum Work #19

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

Skipping Retrospectives? — Making Your Scrum Work #17

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