Fixing Scrum Team Problems

Course details

Successful project execution and value creation always requires a well-equipped team. The Scrum framework is the leading agile approach for teams to adopt, but, Scrum Teams may face challenges that hamper their ability to deliver value efficiently. In this course, Joshua Barnes—a Certified Disciplined Agile Instructor and Certified Disciplined Agile Coach—focuses on common problems that degrade the value a Scrum Team can deliver and solutions that these teams can explore. Just as common Scrum Team problems may have a variety of causes, each also has several options to resolve the issue. This course not only presents the difficulties you may encounter with your scrum team but also highlights potential solutions that you can evaluate and implement.

Learning objectives
Describe common problems Scrum Teams encounter.
Illustrate carry-over work and the growing issues it causes.
Demonstrate the impact when high levels of work in process occur and techniques to bring it back to a manageable level.
Contrast work items that are well understood and ready to be implemented vs. those that aren’t.
Explain the hazards of delayed feedback and how to address them.
Examine what happens when there is a lack of visibility and transparency in the work a team is doing.
Recognize the impacts when a team does not have working agreements.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Improve your team

1. Common Problems of Scrum Teams

02 - Fixing scrum challenges

2. Carryover Work

03 - Understanding carryover work in scrum
04 - Visualizing work to find the root causes of carryover work
05 - The trap of overcommitting

3. High Levels of Work in Process

06 - Understanding work in process (WIP) in scrum
07 - Strategies to minimize WIP delays

4. Stories Not Ready to Work On

08 - Enhancing sprint planning with clear requirements

5. Delayed Feedback

09 - Reduce feedback delays
10 - Improving feedback cycle time in scrum teams

6. Lack of Workflow Visualization

11 - The challenges of hidden workflows
12 - Visualizing a team's workflow

7. No Team Agreements

13 - Enhancing collaboration with team norms
14 - Building team norms
15 - Effective cross-team agreements

8. Managing Dependencies

16 - Managing dependencies in scrum projects
17 - Dependency management across teams

Conclusion

18 - Putting what you've learned into practice