There’s No Such Thing as Change Resistance

During my first Agile consulting gig, I was working with a pilot team that had 5 developers, 2 testers, and me, as the Scrum Master. We had another external technical coach who was working with us as well.

We were using a technique called planning poker to size up 3 different projects and one person on the team would have none of it! “This is stupid”, he’d say as he threw his cards on thetable and stormed out.

This pattern of behaviour escalated to the point where team members came to me, as...