The team Guru was working with was asked to “be more productive” and to “burn more story points”. That request led to a big anti-pattern, as the team was only concerned with the numbers after that point. In this episode, we discuss the many anti-patterns that emerge when teams are asked to focus on “the numbers”, instead of the quality and impact of their work.
In this segment, we refer to SDLC, aka Software Development Lifecycle, and the Shift-left movement approach in software development.
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In Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Sutherland, Guru found an inspiring book that explains how, and where Scrum can be used, from visual boards for painting a house, to Scrum in education. The book makes Scrum easy to understand, and helps change agents learn how to present the framework to stakeholders and teams.
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About Gurucharan Padki
Gurucharan Padki comes with 18 years of experience in the IT industry, of which he has spent more than a decade in the Agile world delivering products, programs and projects with focus on engineering and quality . He has played the role of product owner, scrum master and agile coach in multiple organizations across India and the world driving transformations.
You can link with Gurucharan Padki on LinkedIn.
