Tag: Anti-Patterns

  • How to Make Agile Work — Six Fallacies, Seven Remedies

    How to Make Agile Work — Six Fallacies, Seven Remedies

    TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups

    For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making Agile work — including Scrum as a framework — in a fast-growing startup. Also, let me introduce you to the anti-patterns agile startups shall avoid at all costs.

    How to Make Agile Work — Six Fallacies, Seven Remedies — Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • 22 Scrum Master Anti-Patterns from Job Ads: From Funny to What the Heck?

    22 Scrum Master Anti-Patterns from Job Ads: From Funny to What the Heck?

    TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns from Job Ads

    Job ads for Scrum Master positions reveal great insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile. I analyzed more than 50 job ads for Scrum Master positions to gain these. Learn more about what makes job ads such a treasure trove with the following 22 Scrum Master anti-patterns derived from job ads.

    22 Scrum Master Anti-Patterns from Job Ads: From Funny to What the Heck? Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • 18 Signs of a Systemic Toxic Team Culture

    18 Signs of a Systemic Toxic Team Culture

    TL; DR: 18 Signs of a Systemic Toxic Team Culture

    What looked like a good idea back in the 1990ies—outsourcing software development as a non-essential business area—has meanwhile massively backfired for a lot of legacy organizations. While they try to become more appealing to product and software developers, they still have difficulties understanding what it takes to build an attractive product/engineering culture. Learn more about typical anti-patterns and signs that an organization is causing a toxic team culture, impeding its efforts to become agile.

    18 Signs of a Systemic Toxic Team Culture — Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • Remote Agile (Part 4): Anti-Patterns — Pitfalls Successful Distributed Teams Avoid

    Remote Agile (Part 4): Anti-Patterns — Pitfalls Successful Distributed Teams Avoid

    TL; DR: Remote Agile Anti-Patterns — Pitfalls Successful Distributed Teams Avoid

    We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by delving into virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. This fourth article now addresses basic remote agile anti-patterns — the pitfalls any distributed team wants to avoid to become successful.

    Remote Agile (Part 4): Anti-Patterns — Pitfalls Successful Distributed Teams Avoid — Berlin Product People GmbH

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