Weaponized Scrum

Level: Practicing

You championed Agile adoption in your organization. Interest grew as your projects become predictable. You led a group of agilists who helped spread the word to more groups. Life was good. Then senior management took notice of the improvements and decided to mandate adoption of Agile. They’ve skimmed some of the books, but don’t have any practical experience. Your agile adoption has just reached a critical stage as it moves from grass-roots effort to management directive. You’re about to lose control of your baby. You’re about to learn that you’ve created a monster.

Process/Mechanics

Education of all parties involved and constant communication are key to the success of any agile effort. But when the people making the decisions learn only enough to become dangerous, they can misinterpret the transparency of the information radiators provided by Scrum. The formal slides will present the case study. The material will be narrated with as much humor as can be interjected into such a grim tale. My hope is to follow the presentation with a question-answer session that will set up in no uncertain terms, the dangers of losing control and handing agile adoption over to the uninformed. This is a cautionary tale of how to set your agile adoption back to the dark ages. Let our tale of woe serve as a lesson to all who hear it! Let our story of repairing the damage, serve as an example that it’s never too late to do the right thing.

Learning outcomes
  • Using information radiators against the team
  • Destroying team unity
  • You get what you measure
  • Abnormal Termination
  • The long, slow road to Recovery
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