How to Fix Bad Agile
59mIntermediate2021-01-07
Authors

Doug Rose
Teaching Fortune 500s and professionals how to lead change
Course details
More than 80% of software products are delivered using an agile mindset, but the reality is that there is a lot of bad agile. Many agile coaches will tell you that bad agile is only good agile unoptimized, so this course walks you through five ways to optimize your agile team and enhance key processes. This course shows you how to keep standups, retrospectives, and product reviews productive, as well as how to keep the processes stable while allowing room for improvement. Next, it offers tips to improve your estimation and planning, while staying focused on the purpose behind the user stories. This course teaches you how to engage product owners, democratize scrum masters, and transition successfully to a cross-functional team. It also explains how to appease milestone managers and make sure that the product owner maintains ownership of the product. Finally, this course covers how to collaborate with the rest of the organization and keep your team together.
Skills covered
Agile Project ManagementProject ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Fixing bad agile
1. Improve Agile Processes
- 02 - Energize sleepy standups
- 03 - Avoid negative retrospectives
- 04 - Fill empty product reviews
- 05 - Keep agile from being agile
2. Make Accurate Plans
- 06 - Fix variable velocity
- 07 - Write useful user stories
- 08 - Avoid poor planning poker
- 09 - Improve bad estimates
3. Boost the Team
- 10 - Engage disengaged product owners
- 11 - Democratize autocratic scrum masters
- 12 - Collaborate across functional areas
- 13 - Avoid performance coaches
4. Master Management
- 14 - Appease milestone managers
- 15 - Manage developing directors
- 16 - Ride CIO turnarounds
5. Avoid Organizational Issues
- 17 - Bridge islands of agility
- 18 - Ensure humans are not resources
- 19 - End the story point wars
Conclusion
- 20 - Next steps