This document outlines ways to undermine agility in an organization from a coach's perspective. It discusses 7 lessons to "kill" an agile transition by making it a checklist and assuming management knows agile without training teams. It also details 12 tips to "save the bugs and kill quality" such as ignoring priorities, leaving no time for testing or bug fixing. Finally, it lists 5 lessons to "save command and control and kill self-organization" like creating hierarchies and assuming teams can't make decisions without oversight. The document aims to identify common anti-patterns and ways to promote true agility instead of undermining it.
9. Lesson #4
Start the transition bottom-
up. It’s the teams which
need to learn Agile
10. Lesson #5
Product Management, Project
Management, Development , Test
Engineering are all separate departments.
Each should transition
at its own pace
11. Lesson #6
Agile says No
Documentation.
So, No documents
will ever be created
henceforth
29. Lesson # 3
Teams are incapable of
taking a collective
decision.
So, it best left to the
experienced people
like Scrum Master and
Product owner
30. Lesson # 4
As team is
inexperienced in
processes,
It doesn’t know what
works for them.
A Coach/ consultant
knows the best that
can work
31. Lesson # 5
Manager is essential for an Agile
team. He/ She should oversee
every thing every day/ every hour
32. The Next Steps
Identify which of these things are common
happenings in your projects
Identify 5 ways that you will thwart the plans for Agile
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35. If I can be of any help
Madhur Kathuria
www.madhurkathuria.com / www.madhurkathuria.info
Email: madhur@indiascrumcommunity.org
Twitter: madhurkathuria
Skype: madhur.kathuria
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