Your team is supposed to use an agile approach, such as Scrum. But you have a years-long backlog, your standups are individual status reports, and you’re still multitasking. You and your team members wish you had the chance to do great work, but this feels a lot like an “agile” death march.
There’s a reason you feel that way. You’re using fake agility—a waterfall lifecycle masquerading as an agile approach. Worse, fake agility is the norm in our industry.
No one has to work that way.
Instead, you can assess your culture, project, and product risks to select a different approach. That will allow you to choose how to collaborate so you can iterate over features and when to deliver value. When you do, you are more likely to discover actual agility and an easier way to work.
The last slide includes the links to posts I referred to in the video.
johannarothman
docodoor_hr
eastfields
inagakikay
enechain
mayforblue
freee
mercari_inc
susmed
tokyo_metropolitan_gov_digital_hr
tomosooon
whisaiyo
addyosmani
aarron
maltzj
nonsquared
swwweet
tammielis
kneath
akosma
jacobian
jlugia
maggiecrowley
lara
