How to Fix Bad Agile

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

Course Description

Overview

Teams can fix the bad agile they pick up while making the organizational changes needed to embrace an agile mindset. This course shows common challenges and how to fix them.

Syllabus

Introduction

Fixing bad agile

1. Improve Agile Processes

Energize sleepy standups
Avoid negative retrospectives
Fill empty product reviews
Keep agile from being agile

2. Make Accurate Plans

Fix variable velocity
Write useful user stories
Avoid poor planning poker
Improve bad estimates

3. Boost the Team

Engage disengaged product owners
Democratize autocratic scrum masters
Collaborate across functional areas
Avoid performance coaches

4. Master Management

Appease milestone managers
Manage developing directors
Ride CIO turnarounds

5. Avoid Organizational Issues

Bridge islands of agility
Ensure humans are not resources
End the story point wars

Conclusion

Next steps

Taught by

Doug Rose

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