Scrum will help you fail in 30 days or less. — Ken Schwaber, c2001 I spent some time talking about risk and failure in my last post, noting the pathogenic fear of failure endemic at most waterfall development organizations. To a person conditioned to such an environment, the above quote probably appears nihilistic or dangerously [...]
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There’s a perception that agile is somehow academic – that it was cooked up as part of a PhD dissertation, or is the rarefied result of years of private funding and fevered intellectual inquiry by ivory-tower eggheads at some software equivalent of the Brookings Institution. Unfortunately for anyone subscribing to this misperception, the exact opposite [...]
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A common misperception of what agile is about is speed – specifically, that it makes development faster. I hear this a lot when asking folks what they’ve heard about agile development – “Agile will make us faster.” I suppose this is unsurprising given the chronic lateness and cost overrun of the typical software project. Slowness [...]
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One of the most common questions asked in Scrum classes and coaching is how to handle backlog items that don’t get finished in a sprint – where do we credit the ‘work done’ for unfinished backlog items? While it’s understandable to want to allocate credit for the effort spent to the sprint to which it [...]
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A common characterization of the Product Owner role is as the “single wringable neck” – the one person the business can go to when the product fails to deliver on expectations or market success. This saying encapsulates the difficulty and responsibility of the position; Few people would sign up for this, and in fact, when [...]
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I recently worked with a team who’s fairly new to agile, only a few months into their Scrum adoption. Despite their novice status, they have a surprisingly progressive view of a few agile concepts, one of them being the idea of what it means to be a cross-functional team. We usually say that to be [...]
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