by Stefan Wolpers | Nov 25, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, autonomy, Making Your Scrum Work, Scrum anti-patterns, scrum team, Sprint planning
TL; DR: Maximizing Utilization as a Relic from the Industrial Management Past There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Since Scrum is an intentionally incomplete framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. For...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 26, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, scrum, scrum anti-pattern, scrum team, Self-organization
TL; DR: Abandoning Scrum Can a Scrum team simply decide to abandon Scrum? After all, the Scrum team self-managing, according to the Scrum manual, also known as the Scrum Guide. So, let’s explore this question at the very heart of team autonomy. 🗞 Shall I notify you...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 18, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Making Your Scrum Work, Scrum anti-patterns, scrum team, Self-organization
TL; DR: Ignoring Self-Management — Undermining Scrum from the Start 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 of Scrum’s first principles is...
by Stefan Wolpers | Aug 29, 2020 | Agile and Scrum, Agile anti-patterns, Engineers engineering, Scrum anti-patterns, scrum team
TL; DR: 18 Signs of a Systemic Toxic Team Culture What looked like a good idea back in the 1990ies—outsourcing software development as a non-essential business area—has meanwhile massively backfired for a lot of legacy organizations. While they try to become more...
