Review Everything wrong with agile

Everything wrong with agile – Half the work in twice the time is the first agilecartoons book by Michael Küsters. A feast of recognition. Delightful cartoons showing a multitude of anti-patterns.

The 70 ridiculous agile situations are clustered in 8 groups:

Let’s transform

Time to turn
Scrum transformation
Robust plan
Framework selection
Cherry picking
Meet the agile community
Hybrid agile
Copy and paste
FATE (Fake Agile Transformation for Enterprises)
gile transformation

Staffing

Role master
SM interview
Scrum Master replacement
Product Owner interview

Off to a great start!

Diplomatic solution
Toxic behaviours
Custom Kanban
No plan
Dogmatic Scrum
Cost centre budgeting
Agile road construction

Plan to succeed

The project manager
Well prepared
Ready when you say
Won the planning poker!
Planning breakdown
User story creation
User stories
Well planned
The joys of product ownership
Divide and conquer
Just kid-ding
All or nothing
Test for value
Proxy Product Owner

Manage agile

Prioritization
Parents and kids
Status report
Velocity decline
We pay you for working
Scrum doesn’t help
The 4th wall

Scream mastery

Mandatory attendance
Parents and kids
Team secretary
Quality engineering
Scrum master remote
Double screwed
Burn charts
Scrum rituals
Coach the coach
Ticker talk
Legacy code
Responding to change

Scrum at scale

Estimation bazaar
The joys of scaling
Shared developers
Multi-planning
Shared ‘services’
Scream of screams
Agile test team

Inspect and adapt

Ticketing
In review
Get more done
Solve all the impediments
Change of choice
Retrospective Deja vu
No Vegas rule
Let’s do agile
Successful transformation

Conclusion. Fun to read! A feast of recognition. Delightful cartoons showing a multitude of anti-patterns. As a collector of agile frameworks, I love FATE (Fake Agile Transformation for Enterprises). I am definitely going to use it during my next SAFe training classes.

Some of the cartoons can be found in the Blue Striped Frog magazine and if you are lucky you can ask Inspinity for a free copy of this Inspinity edition of the agilecartoons book.