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 [...]
Scrum – what happens when the Product Owner is not fully engaged with the team
Filed Under Process, Product Backlog, Product Management, Product Owner, Scrum | Posted on May 12, 2010
As a part of the Scrum process, it is essential that the Product Owner has to fully engaged with the team. On the other hand, one of the biggest problems with the failure of Scrum teams is due to a Product Owner not being fully engaged with the team, due to a multiple number of [...]
