Anti-Patterns

The Top Three System-Level Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns

TL; DR: System-Level Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns Learn how outdated organizational structures manifest themselves in system-level Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns that easily…

April 29, 2024

Dysfunction Mapping — Michael Lloyd at the 58. Hands-on Agile Meetup

TL; DR: Dysfunction Mapping w/ Michael Lloyd In this fascinating talk, Michael introduced the concept of dysfunction mapping, a tool…

February 11, 2024

How To Spot Successful Scrum Masters

TL; DR: How To Spot Successful Scrum Masters In this article, I unravel the secrets of what makes a Scrum…

December 10, 2023

The Scrum Trap: How Unfit Practices Will Harm Return on Investment

TL, DR: The Scrum Trap Scrum is a purposefully incomplete framework. Consequently, it needs to be augmented with tools and…

November 27, 2023

Escaping the Feature Factory — Refocussing From Output to Outcome

TL; DR: Escaping the Feature Factory The feature factory fate is not inevitable; there is hope to avoid becoming a…

November 20, 2023

The Expensive Folly of the Oversized Product Backlog

TL; DR: The Costs of an Oversized Product Backlog Some Product Owners believe that a comprehensive Product Backlog is the…

July 10, 2023

Jira Anti-Patterns and How to Overcome Them

TL; DR: Jira Anti-Patterns If you ask people to come up with popular attributes for “Agile” or “agility,” Scrum and…

April 17, 2023

The Three Daily Scrum Questions Won’t Die — Making Your Scrum Work (29)

TL; DR: The Three Daily Scrum Questions Won’t Die The Daily Scrum serves a single purpose: inspecting the progress toward…

March 6, 2023

Prisoners of Retrospectives — Making Your Scrum Work #24

TL; DR: Prisoners of Retrospectives There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with…

July 10, 2022

How to Sabotage A Product Owner — 53 Anti-Patterns from the Trenches

TL; DR: How to Sabotage A Product Owner — 53 Anti-Patterns from the Trenches to Avoid One of my favorite exercises…

February 21, 2022