Engineering Practices Not Taken Care of by Scrum – Some details
Filed Under Issues, Pitfalls, Problems, Process, Product Owner, Quality, Relationships, Scope, Scrum | Posted on August 31, 2010
Scrum never talks about engineering practices which is a good thing but this sometimes lands teams into trouble. The teams not only adopt the Scrum practices but also the principles which makes their progress sluggish and results in the code base being in a mess. This is a situation which is present in most of [...]
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 [...]
Scrum challenges – Handling cases where the same team has to work on feature development and also support of previous versions and fixing bugs – Part 2
Filed Under Problems, Process, Product, Product Backlog, Product Owner, Scrum | Posted on May 21, 2010
In the first part of this topic (Same team working on new features and production support), we talked about the problem that is there when a Scrum team has to work on new features as well as on production support of the existing releases, its impact on morale, and how if the Scrum team does [...]
