Scrum Teams are often Coached to Death, while the Problems are With Management (open.substack.com)
Team-level coaching isn’t enough
Willem-Jan AgelingJun 19
Team-level coaching isn’t enough
I feel for all the Scrum teams that do the best they can to make their Scrum work, only to be obstructed by management. I have seen so many teams who understand the concepts of Scrum and who are super motivated. They often improve greatly in the first few months. And then their improvements come to a grinding halt.
https://ageling.substack.com/p/scrum-teams-are-often-coached-to-death-while-the-problems-are-with-management-60ac93bb0c1c?r=18ih73&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=webWJA-SecVar 941 points
Oh yes! It’s so frustrating to be told to use Scrum and then expected to change nothing. Except for speed of delivery.
I hate this so much.
GoofAckYoorsElf 451 points
That's why we did our best (and succeeded) to convince everyone involved that we do Kanban now, and thus are slower than before, but deliver a much higher level of quality and when it's done (when we consider it done). Everyone is happy so far.
DetroitHikingGal 75 points
Kanban is working well for us and management is forcing us to move to scrum even though it doesn't fit the nature of our work. Kanban is moving nicely. Scrum is going to slow us down because our old pre-agile way of doing things was pretty much scrum.
GoofAckYoorsElf 22 points
Then find someone with the necessary influence to stop this or simply collectively refuse to work like that. After all, it's you who know how you work best, not management. You'll need someone who can turn your qualitative evidence into some credible numbers.
https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/zotsua/scrum_teams_are_often_coached_to_death_while_the