TL; DR: The Agile Community Needs Your Reality Check on AI
After analyzing dozens of “AI will transform agile” articles, I’ve found a troubling pattern: They’re written by AI enthusiasts who’ve never run a Sprint, not by practitioners dealing with the messy reality of AI integration.
The result? A dangerous gap between AI hype and Agile’s reality on the ground, leading to misguided implementations across our industry.
As someone who has documented Agile anti-patterns for years, I recognize this pattern. When we let others define our practices without practitioner input, we get cargo cult implementations that miss the essence of what makes Agile work.
👉 The AI for Agile Practitioners Survey is our opportunity to establish the definitive, practitioner-driven understanding of AI’s actual impact on our field—before the consultants and tool vendors do it for us.
by Stefan Wolpers|Agile and ScrumAgile TransitionWorkshops
TL; DR: Introducing the “Anti-Patterns Canvas”
Join me in developing the Anti-Patterns Canvas, a dynamic and free tool that extends the insights of the “Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide” book. Share your expertise through the survey, see below, and test-drive tools, practices, and exercises through a series of upcoming Hands-on meetups. In other words, help me create a resource that enhances agile practice and value creation.
TL; DR: Scrum Master Tasks: Let’s Bust Some Myths!
Rumor says that a great Scrum Master supports one team at a time. If that is true, how do you spend your time with the team members, helping them become self-managing? Moreover, what about stakeholders and the organization? Let’s gather some data on Scrum Master tasks anonymously and answer the question!
Let’s stop guessing and start crowdsourcing data and information on this critical topic: Who is using what metrics under which context to what success? Participate in the agile metrics survey now.
Update 2020-12-14: We have joined forces with empiriks.de, a German consultancy specializing in statistical analysis, and we plan to take the study to the next level. The Agile Metrics Survey already complies with academic standards. However, what we need now is more participants to improve the sample size.
So far, we have more than 750 contributors; let’s strive for 1,000 contributions by the end of January 2021 and aim to publish the report by the end of March 2021!
There has been no shortage of articles on how to work remotely recently, including our series on remote Agile. While most of the ideas, lessons learned, and tips and tricks may not be new to those few remote work pioneers, they are, however, to the rest of us. The question hence is: What remote work problems are agile teams and organizations facing, and what has proven to be successful in the transition? Answering these two questions is the purpose of the Remote Agile Survey: Let us stop guessing but collect data instead to inspect and adapt the way we can work as an agile distributed team.
The Agile Metrics Survey 2020 Design: Usually, we start an initiative or project by defining what success would look like and how we would learn that we are successful. Which immediately points at metrics of all kinds. This approach is not different for any attempt to become agile, to turn into a learning organization—at least it should not be.
The question is which metrics have been proven to be successful in the past to support that approach. In other words: is there life beyond velocity?
