Failing at Scrum

1. Scrum FAILES?
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Trust
Transparency
Team
Change
Flexibility
Speed
Quality
Value
Improvement
Motivation
Quality
Productivity
Focus
Innovation
Efficiency
Creativity

2. LOTS OF CASES TALK
ABOUT SUCCESS OF
SCRUM

3. BUT, IS FAILURE AT
SCRUM ALSO
POSSIBLE ?

4. YES IT IS!HOW? FOLLOW THESe:

5. DO NOT LOOK FOR UNDERSTANDING ITS VALUES IN
DEPTH. ANYWAY, IS not ıt FEW NEW VOCABULARY
TRICKS AND THINGS WE ALREADY KNeW ?
START SCRUMMING SINCE
EVERYONE ELSE DOING

6. RULES ARE BORING ANYWAY,
GET RID OF SOME
CHANGE THE RULES
YOU DISLIKE!

7. DESTROY TRANSPARENCY!FIND WAYS TO HIDE YOUR PROBLEMS

8. ıgnore qualıtySTAY AWAY FROM ENGINEERING PRACTICES.
ANYHOW CUSTOMERS MOST PROBABLY WILL
NOT recognıze the dıfference. BY THE
WAY, WHAT IS IT THAT RIdıculous defınıtıon
of done thıng?

9. WE ARE THE BEST!
YES YOU ARE. NEVER WASTE YOUR TIME IN
TRYING SOMETHING NEW AND IMPROVE

10. STAY AWAY FROM CUSTOMERSCUSTOMERS DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY WANT.
DEVELOP THE PRODUCT AS YOU WISH AND THEY
WILL INEVITABLY ACCEPT THE RESULT

11. OR

12. DO THE OPPOSITE!
ADOPT EMPIRICISM AND CONTINIOUS
IMPROVEMENT CULTURE

13. SCRUM IS NOT A SILVER BULLET! IT IS YOU
THAT WILL SUCCEED OR FAIL, NOT SCRUM
OR SOME OTHER THING

14. ‘Scrum is like chess. You either play it as its
rules state, or you don’t. Scrum and chess do not
fail or succeed. They are either played, or not.’
Ken Schwaber

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