by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 31, 2023 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Scrum anti-patterns
TL; DR: Scrum Anti-Patterns Taxonomy As the editing process of the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide is nearing its end, it is time to take the next step. The brand new Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide offers 180-plus anti-patterns organized by roles, events, artifacts, and...
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 | Dec 17, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Book, Books, Scrum anti-patterns
TL; DR: Red or Blue? I need your support, dear community. For months, I have been working on turning the popular Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide PDF into a new book from Scrum-org’s Professional Scrum Series, published by Pearson. We will soon start the editing process, and...
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 | Aug 1, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Making Your Scrum Work, Scrum anti-patterns, Sprint Goal, Sprint planning, Video
TL; DR: No Sprint Goal 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. For example, what if there is no Sprint Goal — Sprint after Sprint? What if the...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 10, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Making Your Scrum Work, Retrospective, Scrum anti-patterns, sprint retrospective, Video
TL; DR: Prisoners of Retrospectives 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. What if, for example, not all of your Scrum team’s members feel...
