When Not To Use Agile - Scrum Master Certification | World Of Agile

1. When Not To Use Agile  Scrum Master Certification | World Of Agile    Over the years, ​Agile methodologies​ have taken the heat when they  appear to have failed to deliver expected benefits to an organization.    If our project fails, the tendency is that “we must blame the ​Agile​ process  and our practices in some way for this”.    Agile is not a magic stick to save a failing project and bring immediate  results. It lets you uncover better ways of developing software by doing it  and helping others do it.    As with all development methods, the skill and experience of users  determine the degree of success and/or abuse of such activity.    So sometimes we obtain agility by making up our own variation of this  methodology. In this case, failure of this project should largely be  incumbent upon us for deciding to sacrifice the practices we chose to  ignore and the new ones we added. Some are Agile while just for  namesake, and following no methodology, just cherry-picking a couple of  practices here and there, and picking the principles they like.    1. Checkbook commitment doesn’t support organizational change  management. CEOs create within the company their own personal family  dysfunction.    2. Culture doesn’t support change.    3. There are no or ineffective retrospectives. Actions which come out get  ignored or written off.    4. In a race to finish features, the infrastructure gets worse and  architecture becomes unstable. Distributed teams make this worse.    5. Lack of collaboration in planning. Like having the whole team for  release planning.   

2. 6. None or too many ​Product Owners​. Both cases look the same. Agile is  yet another hat to wear and the person is already too busy. They check  out and ask the team to just do Agile. Can’t get past the ‘this sucks’ phase  of adoption if the business is not bought in.    7. Bad ​Scrum Master​ which uses a command and control style with the  team to look faster, yet in reality slows things down. Low morale actually  makes people less productive    8. No on-site evangelist. If the teams are distributed, need one at every  site. Can’t reap the benefits of Agile or offshore without an on-site coach  at each location.    9. No solid team.    10. Tsunami of technical debt if don’t pull tests forward.    11. Traditional performance appraisals. Individual heroics rewarded    12. Revert to traditional. Change is hard.    World of Agile is a brand owned by Effective PMC Pvt Ltd. Founded in 2009  and specializes in providing professional training services on Project  Management related certifications. In the last 7 years, trained more than  10K+ professionals from various verticals on certifications by Project  Management Institute (PMI)® Such as Project Management Professional  (PMP)®, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® other certifications like  SCRUM, PRINCE2, ITIL, MICROSOFT PROJECT and many students have  passed PMP® examination after attending our courses.    For More Information, Follow the Links below-    Website - ​https://worldofagile.com/  Facebook - ​https://www.facebook.com/Fascinating.World.Of.Agile/  Twitter -​ https://twitter.com/WorldOfAgile  LinkedIn - ​https://www.linkedin.com/company/world-of-agile/  YouTube - ​https://www.youtube.com/c/WorldOfAgile