Ever Since We Started Doing SCRUM Everything's Great. Not!
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A talk about real-world problems when adopting Scrum: rolling it out increased meetings and slowed delivery, splitting one dev team into three while ops/admin couldn’t cope. Recommends concrete fixes—start small, run regular retrospectives with rotating moderators, make changes measurable (satisfaction, lead time), treat transparency as information, and use tiny experiments with before/after measurement and rollback; includes examples of declines after 3–6 months and a small successful local rollout.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Welcome
- 3:00Agile done right
- 7:23Scrum pitfalls
- 12:58Small steps over revolutions
- 18:44Change needs rituals
- 23:02Transparency for improvement
- 27:11Make problems visible
- 34:15Retrospectives and improvement
- 36:45Iterative change
- 38:10Summary & Q&A
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