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The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide: Challenges Every Scrum Team Faces and How to Overcome Them
Unlock Scrum success for beginners and experts alike with The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide, your key to understanding and elevating Scrum practices.
Scrum is simple to understand but difficult to master. As a framework, Scrum is particularly challenging as there is no formal education tailored to these roles and no comprehensive set of practices readily available to those interested in applying it. The Scrum Guide 2020 describes its underlying principles only in the broadest strokes--from applying Scrum to complex adaptive problems to embracing self-management--but the Scrum Guide is not at all prescriptive about how Scrum Teams work.
The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide compiles the most common challenges that every Scrum Team faces and how to remedy them. The book uses the Scrum Guide as a template to structure the content thus supporting the junior practitioner's Scrum discovery journey (categorized by roles, events, artifacts, and commitments) while allowing the more experienced reader to use the book to reference individual problems or situations.
Addresses Scrum anti-patterns for both novices and experienced practitioners. Offers actionable insights into why Scrum implementations fall short and how to improve. Covers real-time course corrections and improvements in Scrum practices. Maximize Scrum success with this quick reference to the most common Scrum anti-patterns and how to resolve them.
Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.
Scrum is simple to understand but difficult to master. As a framework, Scrum is particularly challenging as there is no formal education tailored to these roles and no comprehensive set of practices readily available to those interested in applying it. The Scrum Guide 2020 describes its underlying principles only in the broadest strokes--from applying Scrum to complex adaptive problems to embracing self-management--but the Scrum Guide is not at all prescriptive about how Scrum Teams work.
The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide compiles the most common challenges that every Scrum Team faces and how to remedy them. The book uses the Scrum Guide as a template to structure the content thus supporting the junior practitioner's Scrum discovery journey (categorized by roles, events, artifacts, and commitments) while allowing the more experienced reader to use the book to reference individual problems or situations.
Addresses Scrum anti-patterns for both novices and experienced practitioners. Offers actionable insights into why Scrum implementations fall short and how to improve. Covers real-time course corrections and improvements in Scrum practices. Maximize Scrum success with this quick reference to the most common Scrum anti-patterns and how to resolve them.
Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.
416 pages, Paperback
Published January 9, 2024
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About the author
Stefan Wolpers
5 books3 followersThe author has been working as a product manager and agile coach (Scrum, Lean Startup, Lean Change) for many years. During that time he developed B2C as well as B2B software, mainly for startups, including a former Google subsidiary.
He originally studied chemistry, business administration and law. However, he has never worked in a laboratory. Instead, back in 1996, he released the first online shop software with SAP R/3 connectivity, just to learn, that the early bird does not necessarily catch the worm.
After his move to Berlin, Germany, he founded first a marketplace for local service. In 2011 Entrepreneurs Club Berlin e.V. and Startup Camp Berlin followed–which is one of the largest German startup conferences today.
His latest project „Age Of Product – Invent For Your Customers“ is now focusing on the exchange of knowledge between product people, designers and developers. It is about lessons learned and best practices on how to identify what product to build and how to build it in an efficient way. Age Of Product will host events and workshops in Berlin from autumn 2015 on and might also organize a new conference in the near future.
The author can be found on Twitter under @StefanW and @AgeOfProduct. He can be reached via LinkedIn or email (stefan@age-of-product.com) and welcomes feedback, tips and shared experiences to improve the next version of this book.
He originally studied chemistry, business administration and law. However, he has never worked in a laboratory. Instead, back in 1996, he released the first online shop software with SAP R/3 connectivity, just to learn, that the early bird does not necessarily catch the worm.
After his move to Berlin, Germany, he founded first a marketplace for local service. In 2011 Entrepreneurs Club Berlin e.V. and Startup Camp Berlin followed–which is one of the largest German startup conferences today.
His latest project „Age Of Product – Invent For Your Customers“ is now focusing on the exchange of knowledge between product people, designers and developers. It is about lessons learned and best practices on how to identify what product to build and how to build it in an efficient way. Age Of Product will host events and workshops in Berlin from autumn 2015 on and might also organize a new conference in the near future.
The author can be found on Twitter under @StefanW and @AgeOfProduct. He can be reached via LinkedIn or email (stefan@age-of-product.com) and welcomes feedback, tips and shared experiences to improve the next version of this book.
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April 9, 2024
This is not a book you can read, it’s more like an encyclopedia that you can refer to when in doubt.
Also, I would have been more than happy just to read about the anti-patterns themselves, and figure out the reasons and remedies on my own. The way they are written, they feel like ChatGPT: not wrong, but repetitive and superficial.
Also, I would have been more than happy just to read about the anti-patterns themselves, and figure out the reasons and remedies on my own. The way they are written, they feel like ChatGPT: not wrong, but repetitive and superficial.
May 21, 2024
A way out from unnecessary situations with Scrum
Anti-patterns distract teams from driving value.
We sometimes fall prey to anti-patterns without being aware of that.
I'm glad that Stefan Wolpers wrote a whole book dedicated to solving once and for all the Anti-Patterns of Scrum. For those who know it all, skip this book.
For those humble enough to step back, this book is a rich source of knowledge to learn about common anti-patterns and how to overcome them.
Here are a few examples:
Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns
. Too much planning
. Too much estimating
. Too little planning
Product Backlog Anti-Patterns:
. Storage for ideas
. I know it all "Product Owner"
. Submissive Engineers
. No time for refinement
. Too much refinement
The above speaks to me because I was part of such situations, either leading to it or falling prey. Scrum wasn't the one to blame; I would easily be guilty.
If you want to learn how to break free from dangerous anti-patterns and thrive with Scrum, this book is for you. Even if you don't work with Scrum, the book will help you with an agile mindset. Read it if you want to drive value faster.
Anti-patterns distract teams from driving value.
We sometimes fall prey to anti-patterns without being aware of that.
I'm glad that Stefan Wolpers wrote a whole book dedicated to solving once and for all the Anti-Patterns of Scrum. For those who know it all, skip this book.
For those humble enough to step back, this book is a rich source of knowledge to learn about common anti-patterns and how to overcome them.
Here are a few examples:
Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns
. Too much planning
. Too much estimating
. Too little planning
Product Backlog Anti-Patterns:
. Storage for ideas
. I know it all "Product Owner"
. Submissive Engineers
. No time for refinement
. Too much refinement
The above speaks to me because I was part of such situations, either leading to it or falling prey. Scrum wasn't the one to blame; I would easily be guilty.
If you want to learn how to break free from dangerous anti-patterns and thrive with Scrum, this book is for you. Even if you don't work with Scrum, the book will help you with an agile mindset. Read it if you want to drive value faster.
May 19, 2024
A book every Scrum Master and agile change agent must have in their library. Many wonderful examples of how to overcome the problems we are all facing when we try to help companies.
Only wish for the next edition is to make appendix B chapters in the new edition or maybe a completely new book. Great examples of how to use practices in various situations - I am sure there are many great examples out there 😊
Only wish for the next edition is to make appendix B chapters in the new edition or maybe a completely new book. Great examples of how to use practices in various situations - I am sure there are many great examples out there 😊
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