Tag: Impediments

  • Agile Laws: From Conway to Goodhart to Parkinson to Occam’s Razor

    Agile Laws: From Conway to Goodhart to Parkinson to Occam’s Razor

    TL; DR: Agile Laws in Software Development

    On many occasions, working with agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. Starting to change always requires the acceptance that there is a problem that needs attention. The following article addresses some of the most prevailing impediments to achieving agility by revisiting several agile laws that are particularly relevant to any team’s effectiveness in solving customer problems.

    Agile Laws: From Conway to Goodhart to Parkinson to Occam’s Razor — Berlin-Product-People.com

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  • Scrum Master Problem Solving — The Survey Results

    Scrum Master Problem Solving — The Survey Results

    TL;DR: Scrum Master Problem Solving — The Survey Results

    Scrum Master Problem Solving: We all know it; changing the way we work is extremely difficult. It requires us to find novel solutions to wicked challenges, to deal with cultural baggage (‘the way we do things here’) and to bring along the people needed to make a change successful. And yet, this difficult challenge is a core responsibility of Scrum Masters: How can your organization work effectively with Scrum if it is not considering the entire system?

    But how do Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches go about this? What strategies do they use to change the system? Who are their most important allies? And what else can we learn from them?

    We teamed up with The Liberators to identify what works in the field. We gathered both quantitative as well as qualitative data from a survey completed by over 200 participants.

    Survey Results: Scrum Master Problem Solving — Berlin Product People GmbH

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