Leveraging Anti-patterns for Improved Business Agility
summary
Claims that common anti-patterns become raw material for a gradual agility shift and offers an explicit method called Minimum Scrum that was tested in a real engagement and produced measurable short wins. The approach centers on four practices: empowered roles, events with intent, “start good / finish better” backlog discipline, and explicit change handling; it uses small experiment loops, co-learning and trust-building rather than big-bang rollouts, and reports stepwise improvements in delivery predictability and stakeholder confidence.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:06Anti-patterns in business
- 4:16Why anti-patterns work
- 7:31Checkbox agile dangers
- 10:23Forced roles pitfalls
- 12:13Real anti-patterns in agile
- 14:05Velocity myth
- 15:51Minimalist agile framework
- 20:49Agile context mismatch
- 21:51Mindset beyond frameworks
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