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Hints that you might be a CrAgilist (Crappy Agilist)
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- If, at the end of the Sprint you have several stories started and no stories completed....
- If you conduct retrospectives on at the end of bad iterations...
- If your PO won’t play with you...
- If you are very, very, very proud of that Powerpoint you created for the review meeting...
You might be a CrAgilist
- If you conduct a retrospective only at the end of the project...
- If every scrum starts with you nagging about updating the burndown...
- If QA is on a different team...
- If you use the wrong side of the post-it...
- If several managers ask you for your MS Project Schedule – and you have one..
You just might be a CrAgilist
- If you deliver on all you commitments but deliver no working product...
- If your iteration has secret tasks...
- If the daily stand-up happens once a month...
- If your sprint planning is longer than your sprint..
- If your backlog is password-protected...
- If you have a defect triage meeting...
- If your backlog is a “secret”...
- If you answer most questions with “It Depends”...
- If “It Works on my machine” is your definition of done...
It's Quite Possible you're a CrAgilist
- If “Done” is dynamic...
- If the product can only build to your machine...
- If you dictate what the velocity will be...
- If you find yourself reducing team story sizes despite planning results...
- If your requirements task needs to be completed before your design task can start...
- If you’re inventing a product backlog in the sprint planning meeting...
- If your team is doing scrum “because you said so” ...
You might be a CrAgilist
- If you don’t have a definition of done...
- You consider some tasks on the board as “not my job”...
- If you don’t know who your product owner is...
- If you calculate story points from function points...
- If you use your demo to get acceptance...
- If your team doesn’t come up with their own definition of done...
- If you are considering trading product quality...
- If you promised a fixed amount of scope within a fixed amount of time...
- If you are constantly debating whether this is defect or enhancement...
- If your idea of “self-organizing teams” is they get organized by your self...
