Stefan Wolpers February 23, 2021 TL; DR: Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. What product discovery part, you may think … Continue reading Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure
Stefan Wolpers February 3, 2021 TL; DR: Product Owner Anti-Patterns from Job Ads Like a job ad for a Scrum Master position, the equivalent for the Product Owner position also reveals excellent insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile. (February 03, 2021), I analyzed 60-plus randomly selected job ads from the UK, the US, … Continue reading 23 Product Owner Anti-Patterns from Job Ads: The Snitch, the Whip, the Bookkeeper, the Six Sigma Black Belt™
Stefan Wolpers — November 2, 2019 Follow @StefanW TL; DR: 20 Daily Scrum Anti-Patterns In my experience, the Daily Scrum is the Scrum event with the highest anti-pattern density among all events. Learn more about the Daily Scrum anti-patterns that threaten to derail your transition. The Purpose of the Daily Scrum The purpose of the … Continue reading Daily Scrum Anti-Patterns: 20 Ways to Improve
Stefan Wolpers — June 26, 2019 Follow @StefanW — June 26, 2019 TL; DR: 28 Product Backlog Anti-Patterns Scrum is a simple, yet sufficient framework to build emerging products, provided you identify in advance what is worth building. But even after a successful product discovery phase, you may struggle to make the right thing in … Continue reading 28 Product Backlog Anti-Patterns
Stefan Wolpers — May 8, 2018 Follow @StefanW — May 8, 2018 TL; DR: Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns Learn how individual incentives and outdated organizational structures — fostering personal agendas and local optimization efforts — manifest themselves in scrum stakeholder anti-patterns which easily can impede any agile transition. The Scrum Stakeholder and Organizational Excellence in Legacy … Continue reading Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns
