Quick Glance At: Agile Anti-Patterns

By David Tanzer

When companies introduce agile methodologies - like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, ... - they often face problems. In this book, you will learn...How to spot and recognize problems and anti-patterns in your team / organization.How those anti-patterns usually start and which root-causes they have.Vocabulary, so you can discuss the anti-patterns with your colleagues and managers.Possible solutions and ideas to improve your situation.You will learn about 9 anti-patterns agile companies often face, how they often start, their root causes and ideas for solving them:Agile Theater - When companies pretend to be "agile", but most things still work like in a traditional company.Feature Factory - When "Agile" is only seen as a way to increase efficiency.Product Backlog Bankruptcy - When your backlog becomes unmanagably big and this causes delays and other problems.Architecture Madness - When architecture and software design slowly gets worse over time.Team Backlog - When there are improvements that your team wants to implement, but they just never have time.Burnout by 1000 Baby Steps - When agile tools are used to micro-manage people and teams.Collaboration Friction - When working together with other teams and departments does not work anymore.Tailoring Agile - When companies want to change Scrum or Kanban or SAFe before even trying it.Because they Said So - When your company blindly copies practices of other companies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1980226318
• ISBN13: 9781980226314
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 125 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.3" x 8.3"