A few giveaways that an Agile™ team has lost its way: Not delivering every couple days or less and acting on the feedback they get. Not willing to change things like the Sprint plan when the situation calls for it. Focus on "commitment," "output," and "meeting deadlines" instead of outcomes. Not welcoming changes to the current work based on that feedback. Working in the same way today that they were working a few months ago is a huge red flag, as is waiting around because they're blocked. Not talking to customers frequently. Working from an inflexible backlog. Not able to decide who, what, and when they work. The list goes on 😄. Feel free to add to it!
Not having defined outcomes or understanding of what to measure and how to measure it. Even the most leading indicators such as simple user feedback
That just described every scaled agile team in existence
Agile does not work.
I think horticulture metaphors work for agile. Imagine shouting about deadlines, points and burndown to your roses.
using story points to estimate costs, time, deadlines and team efficiency
These behaviors most often reflect an organizational culture and management style that is not well-aligned with agile ways of working, rather than individual team dysfunction. Fix the systemic, root cause issues and team performance is free to improve.
Demo driven development!
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2yFocusing on metrics not on delivering value