Teams may not notice such practices if the daily stand-up morphs into a personal status report where members recap non-Scrum-related tasks they completed the previous day and the ones they plan to accomplish in the current day.These meetings makelittle or no mention of obstacles or barriers fa...
ScrumAnti-patternsEmpirical studyThe wide-spread adoption of the agile movement has rapidly changed the landscape of software industry. In particular, Scrum is an agile process framework that has become extremely popular in industry. However, the practical implementation of Scrum in companies rarely ...
In contrast to the first point, aScrum Masterwho doesn’t like change, or avoid change at all cost, will also create problems for the team. The key is to achieve a delicate balance of the magnitude and frequency of process improvement ideas. Scrum encourages the Scrum Team to “inspect an...
However, it is also one of the least understood roles thanks to the various ways it’s applied in Agile frameworks. Scrum is one of the most popular Agile frameworks and is the framework of choice for Signifyd. Within Scrum the product manager is known as a product owner (PO). When such...
When you’re working in an Agile methodology (such as Scrum or Kanban), you usually don’t have a fixed scope between two public releases. SemVer makes the version dependent on the changes you made, which are defined by the scope of your release. In other words, a fixed scope results ...
people and culture to focus on multiple releases, Wynd explained. To break this DevOps antipattern, step back and transition more slowly between thedifferent software development methodologies. Go from Waterfall to Water-Scrum-fall to an Agile-like approach before full Agile and, finally, to Dev...
One of the antipatterns featured in this chapter is about vendor lock-in. How can companies balance the benefits they get from buying into AWS or another cloud platform, while also maintaining flexibility and avoiding lock-in? Harber: By the very nature of what AWS offers, it can be...
Anti-patternsCase studyGrounded theoryScrumThis paper presents a case study of one traditionally non-agile Information Technology (IT) services organisation in Ireland during its transition to implementidoi:10.1007/s40171-017-0162-8Carew, Peter