July 3, 2008 in Software Development by Mark Levison

Don’t worry I’m not about to turn this into a link blog. I stumbled across these articles while looking for more Scrum Smells.

How to Fail with Agile (the link isn’t date specific and will probably rot by Septmember) – by Clinton Keith and Mike Cohn. They cover four classes of issues (20 in all) that might cause problems:

  1. Management – Don’t trust the team or agile. Micromanage both your team members and the process…
  2. Team – Continually fail to deliver what you committed to deliver during iteration planning…
  3. Product Owner – Don’t pay attention to the progress of each iteration and objectively evaluate the value of that progress…
  4. Process – Drop and customize important agile practices before fully understanding them…

11 Ways Agile Adoptions Fail by Jean Tabaka covers items like: Ineffective use of the retrospective, Product Owner is Consistently Unavailable or There are Too Many Owners Who Disagree and Teams Lacking Authority and Decision-Making Ability.

10 ways to screw up with Scrum and XP by Henrik Kniberg (author of Scrum and XP from the trenches): Team is pressured, Technical Debt …

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