by Stefan Wolpers | Jun 26, 2023 | Agile and Scrum, Agile anti-patterns, Agile Metrics, Agile Transition, Metrics, Scrum metrics
TL; DR: Useless Agile Metrics Ideally, a metric is a leading indicator for a pattern change, allowing your Scrum team to analyze the cause in time and take countermeasures. However, what if you picked the wrong metrics? What if these useless agile metrics lead you in...
by Stefan Wolpers | Apr 17, 2023 | Agile and Scrum, Agile anti-patterns, Scrum anti-patterns
TL; DR: Jira Anti-Patterns If you ask people to come up with popular attributes for “Agile” or “agility,” Scrum and Jira will likely be among the top ten featured. Moreover, in any discussion about the topic, someone will mention that using Scrum running on top of...
by Stefan Wolpers | Aug 8, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Agile anti-patterns, Agile Transition, Leadership, Making Your Scrum Work, Micromanagement, scrum, Scrum anti-patterns
TL; DR: Agile Micromanagement There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Indeed, given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. For example, the Scrum Guide clearly states the importance of...
by Stefan Wolpers | Feb 21, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Agile anti-patterns, Agile Transition, Failure, Product Owner
TL; DR: How to Sabotage A Product Owner — 53 Anti-Patterns from the Trenches to Avoid One of my favorite exercises from my Professional Scrum Product Owner classes is how to best sabotage a Product Owner as a member of the middle management. The exercise rules are...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 5, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile anti-patterns, Agile failure, agile transformation, Agile Transition, Failure, Leadership, Scrum anti-patterns
TL; DR: The Lack of Agile Leadership Qualities — When Change Agents Don’t Act as Role Models 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...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jun 4, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile anti-patterns, Agile Transition, Development Team, Making Your Scrum Work, Scrum anti-patterns
TL; DR: The Developers Code Fallacy — They Should Talk to Customers, Too, Though 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. The Developers Code...
