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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




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




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




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 [...]



Scrum problems – Problems in writing proper user stories – What a Scrum User story is not meant to be – Part 2




The previous article (Scrum stories being too generic) was about providing the required right level of detail in Scrum User Stories, in order to make it represent the User Workflow. In this article, we focus on what a User Story should not be, and though these may seem obvious when we think about these deeply, [...]