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 – The sponsors worried about the lack of a schedule of features in the overall project, this worry extending to the end of the project: Part 2
Filed Under Challenge, Estimation, Features, Issues, Problems, Product, Product Backlog, Product Management, Product Owner, Scrum | Posted on July 5, 2010
In the first post of the article, I wrote about how senior executives need to see the list of features before approving the product development (the list of features is reviewed in terms of competitor analysis, projections of the direction where the product should be heading towards, and also whether these are features that customers [...]
Learn about Scrum – Why does Scrum fail – The sponsors worried about the lack of a schedule of features in the overall project, this worry extending to the end of the project: Part 1
Filed Under Challenge, Estimation, Features, Problems, Product Backlog, Product Management, Product Owner, Review, Schedule, Scrum | Posted on July 4, 2010
In the previous post (Problems in letting the team be self-empowered), I talked about how it was difficult for managers to transition to a role more akin to a coach rather than being the traditional decision-making, hard task driving individual who is responsible for driving their teams. In a number of cases, the managers are [...]
Learn about Scrum – Why does Scrum fail – The team is just not ready for a change in their processes to handle Scrum
Filed Under Agile, Daily Scrum Meeting, Features, Scrum | Posted on June 27, 2010
In the previous post, I took a real life example of a team (Daily Scrum and ScrumMaster) where Scrum was getting implemented, and yet soon after the actual work started, we were finding that things were not going on schedule, and that there were a lot of issues about commitment from the team, analysis revealed [...]
