TL; DR: System-Level Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns Learn how outdated organizational structures manifest themselves in system-level Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns that easily…
TL; DR: Dysfunction Mapping w/ Michael Lloyd In this fascinating talk, Michael introduced the concept of dysfunction mapping, a tool…
TL; DR: How To Spot Successful Scrum Masters In this article, I unravel the secrets of what makes a Scrum…
TL, DR: The Scrum Trap Scrum is a purposefully incomplete framework. Consequently, it needs to be augmented with tools and…
TL; DR: Escaping the Feature Factory The feature factory fate is not inevitable; there is hope to avoid becoming a…
TL; DR: The Costs of an Oversized Product Backlog Some Product Owners believe that a comprehensive Product Backlog is the…
TL; DR: Jira Anti-Patterns If you ask people to come up with popular attributes for “Agile” or “agility,” Scrum and…
TL; DR: The Three Daily Scrum Questions Won’t Die The Daily Scrum serves a single purpose: inspecting the progress toward…
TL; DR: Prisoners of Retrospectives There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with…
TL; DR: How to Sabotage A Product Owner — 53 Anti-Patterns from the Trenches to Avoid One of my favorite exercises…