Organizational Barriers and Impediments to

Big Scrum Implementations

Darian RashidAgile Trainer and Coachdarian@agileethos.com

Module-Based Scrum Teams and Horizontal Slices

GUI scrum team

Business Logic Scrum team

Database Scrum team

“As the system, I’d like to manage my memory so that my memory is managed”

“How do I demo a driver?”

ORG

Distributed Teams

ORG

“The sun never sets on our development empire”

Hardware and Embedded Systems

ORG

Used as an excuse NOT to practice Scrum

Department of Facilities

ORG

“Tear down these cubes!”

Security Policies

“utkubmiT”

ORG

Individual Evaluations and Incentives

Management

Velocity Used to Compare Teams

Management

Fear and Safety

Management

• Fear of raising issues

• “The daily beatings”

PO Decisions Are Pushed to the Devevelopment Team(s)

Product

Ownership

Hmmm…Chinese or Italian

tonight?

Multiple Backlogs And/Or Product Owners For the Same Team

Product

Ownership

Product Owner Proxys (POPs)

Product

Ownership

Product

Ownership

Little or No Release Planning

ScrumMasters Not Empowered

ScrumMasters

Part Time and Rotating “Admin”ScrumMasters

ScrumMasters

Little or No Infrastructure

Technical

Defects are Counted Toward Velocity

Quality

Manager == PO &&Manager == SM &&Manager == Technical Lead

@^$%&!!!

Bottom-Up Deployment

“Scrum is a practice for developers”

Leadership