Are you in a team following Scrum? Or any other method using iterations to do your work?
Are you naming them?
I don’t mean names such as “Sprint 1”, “Iteration 2016-25”. Those aren’t names. Not in my book, anyway. Those are meaningless collections of words and numbers.
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Daily stand-up time. Yay?
When was the last time you jumped up and were raring to go when the reminder for your daily stand-up popped up?
Ya. I know. A long time ago. Quite probably it was only the first couple of stand-ups.
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“Beep. Beep. Beep.” A reminder dialog raises its head in the bottom left corner of your screen. Daily Scrum in 5 minutes.
Your shoulders tense in weary anticipation. It all sounded so good when you all started on the journey to become more agile.
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Disenchantment
You see a lot of people getting disenchanted with agile. Because the transition hasn’t brought the benefits agile proponents promised. You also see a lot of moans about “management” that thinks they can bring in some change managers or agile coaches and “be agile” in two months.
There are plenty of articles on the web bemoaning the “Death of Agile”.
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