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!
Good stuff Allen Holub ! What do you think, 90% lost ?
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
+1 to not welcoming changes
Allen Holub : Maarten Dalmijin is a member of the Scrum Mafia ... He recently published a book on Scrum Sprint Goal
Having a backlog depth of max 3 months: no user stories, no epics, no themes expressing product vision for the future
All team members individually working on their own items, Easily acccepting extra scope/requirements for items in progress so they have a hard time finishing anything, Working on everything in parallel
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2yFocusing on metrics not on delivering value