Screwing Up Software Development – a sarcastic look at how projects fail
Filed Under Agile, Challenge, Problems, Product Backlog, Product Owner, Scrum, Team | Posted on August 29, 2010
We all complain about potholes on the city roads, but when it comes to software development, the process sometimes becomes so monotonous that you long to have potholes and speed breakers in the process. So, what do you do when you want a bumpy ride? You introduce the bumps yourself! So if you mangers are [...]
Why does Scrum fail – the project was not actually Scrum
Filed Under Agile, Challenge, Daily Scrum Meeting, Disadvantages, Empower, Issues, Process, Scrum | Posted on August 4, 2010
This is part of a series of posts that I am writing about, that deal with why Scrum projects can fail. It could be a variety of reasons, ranging from team resistance, to wrong policies, to bad management. In this post, I will deal with yet another reason as to why a Scrum project could [...]
Learn about Scrum – Why does Scrum fail – Dealing with teams working across differnet geographies, optimization techniques
Filed Under Agile, Challenge, Features, Issues, Meeting, Problems, Process, Product Management, Product Owner, Scrum, ScrumMaster | Posted on July 11, 2010
Scrum by itself is normally not a reason for failure of projects, it is more likely that there is a process implementation issue, or a logistics issue that has caused such failures. In a series of posts, I am trying to post some of incidents and examples that I have seen where the Scrum project [...]
Learn about Scrum – Why does Scrum fail – There is the reluctance to allow the team to be self-empowered and modify some processes for their betterment
Filed Under Agile, Change, Empower, Scrum | Posted on July 2, 2010
In the previous post (Team not being ready), I talked about how in some cases, the team has not been properly positioned into Scrum, and as a result, have not understood the benefits; and in some cases, they are introduced to an implementation of Scrum without the required training or at a time of stress, [...]
