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 September) – by Clinton Keith and Mike Cohn. They cover four classes of issues (20 in all) that might cause problems:
- Management – Don’t trust the team or agile. Micromanage both your team members and the process…
- Team – Continually fail to deliver what you committed to deliver during iteration planning…
- Product Owner – Don’t pay attention to the progress of each iteration and objectively evaluate the value of that progress…
- 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 …
Next post will contain some more original content.
About link rot.
Looking at some of the other “featured article” links on the “Better Software Magazine” site, my guess is that adding &id=111 to the end of your URL it will be pegged to the correct issue. I tried it and it certainly resolves to the same page right now.