Saturday, January 7, 2017

Seven Pitfalls with Agile or Scrum Methods

The post describes a presentation I gave at a company internal technical day.  It reflects situations we have seen in a lot of agile projects over the last years.
I assume that the Scrum approach is well introduced in your company. You are already proficient with ScrumeXtreme ProgrammingClean CodeCode Refactoring, how to write stories and story maps, and techniques such as TDD, ATDD.
You are using Scrum well and can laugh about all these posts about Scrum-But(t). Still misunderstandings about Scrum abound.
We will present common pitfalls seen in teams already applying Scrum; meaning teams using Scrum as an empirical process, holding the meetings as described in the Scrum guide, and producing all expected artefacts. We want to increase your awareness and reflect how you can become better Scrum experts. We exhort you to eliminate these misunderstandings in your projects.