Agile Anti-Pattern=> Final wrap up

The most popular Agile Antipatterns conversations of the last 5 months were about:

- Agile Theatre
- Agile Transformations
- Agile Playbook
- Agile Maturity Models

While other Agile Antipatterns are still found very very frequently in many orgs.

So far all of them seem fit into one of the 7 categories listed in the image below. Or there is more?

#AgileAntipatterns #WrapUp

Agile Anti-Pattern => Traditional Roadmaps

Traditional Roadmaps are typically created by applying the iron triangle with a predictive approach. The efforts to minimise the friction between fixed commitments and evolving circumstances are typically inadequate.

See an Agile alternative: http://p2.fed.wiki/view/welcome-visitors/view/options-over-roadmap

What's your experience?

Thanks for the inputs from @mostalive Marc Evers and Rob Westgeest at QWAN

#AgileAntipatterns #Agile #Roadmap #IronTriangle #ProjectFunding #ResourceEfficiency

Agile Anti-Pattern => North Star

A North Star often intended as fixed reference point to navigate toward a desired destination set before the journey begins.
Not for exploring uncharted territories.

See the alternative: http://p2.fed.wiki/view/welcome-visitors/view/flashlight-over-north-star

<<Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know>> Wisława Szymborska

What's your experience within Agile using a North Star? Did it help when dealing with novelty, unknowns and uncertainties?

#AgileAntipatterns #Agile #NorthStar

Agile Anti-Pattern => Agile Maturity Models

There are many things wrong with Agile Maturity Models, they are all explained here with the better alternative, namely Agile self-assessments, with the key differences explained: http://p2.fed.wiki/view/welcome-visitors/view/self-assessment-over-maturity-model

With more content from @johncutlefish - Barry O'Reilly - Chris McDermott

#AgileAntipatterns #Agile #MaturityModel #SelfAssesment

Agile Anti-Pattern=>Agile Playbook

The alternative to this anti-pattern described here promotes contributions & continuous updates: http://p2.fed.wiki/view/welcome-visitors/view/wiki-over-playbook

Does your company have an Agile Playbook? How often is it updated? Who contributes to the content?

How do you feel about its readers-authors separation, "best" practice thinking and its unilateral views?

UPDATED to list other wiki-like forms of living documentation

#Agile #AgileAntipatterns #Playbook #AgilePlaybook #Unilateralism #Wiki

I'm going to steal this sentence and use it the next time management jumps on the cargo cult plane: "This is a level one service desk. We just answer phones."

https://teddit.hostux.net/r/sysadmin/comments/11asl50/agile_scrums_for_f_sake/j9utf2t/

#Agile #AgileAntipatterns #Facepalm

UPDATE: I have updated the CoE anti-pattern page here => http://p2.fed.wiki/view/welcome-visitors/view/decentralised-excellence-over-centre-of-excellence by

1) linking and highlighting the articles from Sriram Narayan, Anthony Mersino + Thomas Cagley and Ove Herbert Holmberg.

2) including in the CoE anti-pattern page comments about CoEs that really are something else, thanks to the insights from Chris Combe.

#Agile #AgileAntipatterns #CentreOfExcellence

Centralisation, Imposition, Imitation, Standardisation, Planification, Commoditization, Pretending

The 7 mistakes of bad Agile adoptions & transformations

Posting under #AgileAntipatterns

Agile Anti-Pattern => Agile Centre of Excellence

The alternative to this is a Decentralised or even Distributed Excellence: http://p2.fed.wiki/view/welcome-visitors/view/decentralised-excellence-over-centre-of-excellence (see also the articles linked, by Ove Herbert Holmberg and Thomas Cagley)

Does your company have one? Where did that come from? How is it working? Have you tried any alternative (e.g. Agile CoP)?

How do you feel about its doer-thinker separation, top-down flavour, and "best" practice thinking?

#Agile #AgileAntipatterns #CentreOfExcellence

Agile Anti-Pattern => Agile as Canned solution & Standard recipes

The Anti-Pattern alternative: http://p2.fed.wiki/view/welcome-visitors/view/ideas-over-solutions

Since becoming mainstream Agile services tend to be closed proprietary commercial all-inclusive template solutions promising to work for all present and foreseeable situations.

Have you observed this anti-pattern in the wild? What's your experience? Which alternatives have you seen working well?

#Agile #AgileAntipatterns #CannedSolutions #StandardRecipes

Agile Anti-Pattern => Agile Coaches/Transformation team like a golden-plated Functional Silo

The anti-pattern is documented here: (Agile Coaches Federation Over Agile Transformation Team) http://p2.fed.wiki/view/welcome-visitors/view/agile-coaches-federation-over-agile-transformation-team

Paradoxically most Agile Transformation Teams or teams of Agile Coaches are one more functional silo.

Have you seen it? What is your experience? Which alternatives have you seen working well?

#Agile #AgileAntipatterns #AgileTransformationTeam #AgileCoachesTeam #FunctionalSilos

Agile Anti-Pattern => Agile Transformation like a large Waterfall Programme

Agile Transformations often are large Waterfall Programme in disguise that are unfit for dealing with the inherent complexity of such an endeavour.
That's why so often they fail.

Instead Agile is better adopted in an Agile way that is iterative-incremental-empirical & more. That succeeds more often.

This anti-pattern's details here: http://p2.fed.wiki/view/welcome-visitors/view/agile-adoption-over-agile-transformation

#Agile #AgileAntipatterns #AgileTransformation

Do you also have the feeling that when Agile entered the mainstream, a lot of things that made it work and succeed had been lost in translation?

That would explain the mixed results we see.

This list below is ironic and true at the same time...

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