Fixing Scrum Team Problems

Fixing Scrum Team Problems

53mIntermediate2025-06-13

Authors

Joshua Barnes

Joshua Barnes

Founder of Process Mentors and Enterprise Agile Transformation Coach

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.

Skills covered

Agile Project ManagementProject Management SkillsProject ManagementOne-Off

Concepts

Introduction

  • Improve your team

Common Problems of Scrum Teams

  • Fixing scrum challenges

Carryover Work

  • Understanding carryover work in scrum
  • Visualizing work to find the root causes of carryover work
  • The trap of overcommitting

High Levels of Work in Process

  • Understanding work in process (WIP) in scrum
  • Strategies to minimize WIP delays

Stories Not Ready to Work On

  • Enhancing sprint planning with clear requirements

Delayed Feedback

  • Reduce feedback delays
  • Improving feedback cycle time in scrum teams

Lack of Workflow Visualization

  • The challenges of hidden workflows
  • Visualizing a team's workflow

No Team Agreements

  • Enhancing collaboration with team norms
  • Building team norms
  • Effective cross-team agreements

Managing Dependencies

  • Managing dependencies in scrum projects
  • Dependency management across teams

Conclusion

  • Putting what you've learned into practice
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