Monday 8 February 2016

Agile Nuggets: Few common dysfunctions during software development.

A few weeks back we examined - ‘Stakeholders made the things complicated than they need to be.’

Today let us continue the next – Gluttony

Gluttony –ScrumMaster

Facilitating multiple teams simultaneously- This leads ScrumMaster losing ‘focus’ from his teams hence results being unjust with them. Generally having a team of size 5 to 9 demands a full time ScrumMaster.

Gluttony –Product Owner

Pushing team to take-up more and more stories in one sprint- This creates unwanted pressure of delivering stories and mostly ends up with technical debt. Also team never finds time to repay any technical debt which was taken in past.

Gluttony –Development Team

Gold Plating- Sometimes some developer puts his time adding unnecessary things, for example too much of documentation. This does not add any value to product and results in waste.

There are multiple such points but I took one point for each. Readers can share their experiences/observations.