7 Deadly Sins of an Agile

Manager

by Nadia Zemskova

@nadiazemskova

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• Denmark – Ukraine – Philippines

• 70+ IT professionals

• Claims processing (Auto, Building, Content)

• Agile since 2009

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Agile is not a religion…

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Segment the audience

Sin #1

Compare

teams

velocitiesPhoto by U.S. Army IMCOM

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TV

3 products

6 teams

…same story points

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Velocity

ratio

Why does this

team has higher

velocity ratio?

Started 2-week

sprints

Sin #2: Relax & stop where you are

Above target on

average, let’s

relax?

Too big for daily scrum

More than 1 KPI…

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Sin #3: Forget useful practices

Burnup chart

Sin #4: Keep useless practices

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Sin #5: Ideal Scrum

Please add this

feature to the

sprint

We can’t.

Scrum doesn’t

allow changing

the Sprint Backlog

25

Modified sprint cycle: 3+1

Sin #6: Tell what to do

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Sin #7: Call people“Resources”

Strategic

Project

Product update

Remember the goal

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What are your sins?Let me know:

nadezhda.zemskova@gmail.com

nadezhda.zemskova

@nadiazemskova

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