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A comprehensive guide to effectively handle typical Agile issues or anti-patterns which Agile Teams experience.

Team Practices

  • Waterfall Sprint
  • Ritualistic Agile
  • Handling of Impediments
  • Unmanaged Dependencies
  • Lack of Stakeholder engagement
  • Unclear or neglected Definition of Done
  • Unclear or neglected Definition of Ready
  • Metrics! What do you mean?
  • Focus only on Velocity
  • Tasks Pushed not Pulled
  • Product Owner absent in Planning
  • Volatile Sprint Scope
  • Yes we do Scrum, but...
  • High Work-in-Progress
  • Feature Quantity over Value
  • Backlog not effectively prioritized

Agile Events

  • Daily Scrum as Status review
  • Long Daily Scrum meetings
  • Insufficient Planning
  • Very detailed Planning
  • Neglected Retrospectives
  • Demo-focused Sprint reviews
  • ‘One-way’ Backlog & Story Refinements

Agile Roles

  • Project Manager as Scrum Master
  • Scrum Master as Product Owner
  • Scrum Master as Technical Leader

Team Culture

  • Team members in a Silo
  • Non-participative Team members
  • Team not self-organizing
  • Lack of psycological safety
  • Lack of 'Continuous Improvement' mindset
  • 'Hero' culture

External

  • Awkward Team size
  • Team not Cross-functional
  • Lack of dedicated members
  • Command-and-control management
  • Fixed scope, Fixed timeline backlog
  • Big-bang Integration