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 failure, Agile Transition, Failure, Failure culture, Making Your Scrum Work, scrum, Scrum anti-patterns
TL; DR: Scrum Failure Culture: A Requirement to Be Successful 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. To make things worse, a crucial success...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jun 4, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Failure, Scrum Master, Scrum Master anti-patterns
TL; DR: The Frustrated Scrum Master — When all the Effort Leads Nowhere 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. One failure symptom of a botched...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 13, 2020 | agile adoption, Agile and Scrum, agile coach, Agile failure, agile transformation, Agile Transition, Failure, Scrum Master, transparency
TL; DR: Speaking Truth to Power Do you need an emergency fund as a change agent—whether you are acting as Scrum Master, Product Owner or agile coach—because conflict is inevitable, but change is not? In my experience, speaking truth to power, pointing at the emperor’s...
by Stefan Wolpers | Oct 30, 2019 | Agile and Scrum, Agile anti-patterns, Agile Metrics, agile transformation, Agile Transition, Failure, Metrics, Scrum Master, Velocity
TL; DR: Faking Agile Metrics — An Eye-Opening Exercise Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Moreover, if the team fails to...
