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Scrum failure – when the team is forced to implement measures that are against the DNA of the organization




One of the biggest problems that I have seen is with respect to a mismatch between the Scrum implementation that a team is supposed to follow and the normal processes that the organization follows. When this mismatch is obvious to everybody, it becomes more difficult for the team since they start wondering about this mismatch [...]



When a team fails because of lack of proper Scrum training, and this turns them against Scrum




One of the problems that I have seen in some teams is the lack of proper Scrum training. The way it mostly works is that a team comes into contact with another team which has implemented Scrum (or has been implementing Scrum for some time), and the other team believes that Scrum is something that [...]



Scrum Failure – When teams take Scrum, but only half-heartedly, and then realize that their Scrum does not work




As part of discussions within the organization, and with other Scrum Masters from other organizations where Scrum is implemented, one of the biggest problems that are discussed is why there are ‘Scrum failures’, or cases where the Scrum implementation seems to have failed. In a number of cases, we find that the Scrum implementation had [...]



Trying to get the Scrum Master to solve issues that are a lot deeper in a superficial way




We were trading stories among many Scrum Masters when we came across this story from one of them that seemed to be an area that seemed likely to cause problems in teams that have newly moved to Scrum. The issue related to a case where a team recently moved over to using Scrum and were [...]