How to Fix Bad Agile

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.

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