One year of Agile Bullshit
Noel Warnell and I started writing about the Agile Bullshit cards. Every week we take 1 or more cards and share our opinion about it. This is the chronological view. If you prefer the view by card, check this page.
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That won’t work here, we’re different (Koen - May 30th, 2023)
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3 cards related to story slicing (Koen - June 7th 2023)
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Our stories take about 3 sprints to deliver
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We can’t finish stories in a sprint, so we’re going Kanban
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You can’t split that story or it loses its value
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We don’t test until everything is complete (Koen - June 21st 2023)
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We decided to drop our retrospectives (Koen - July 5th 2023)
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Zero slack time / 100% capacity allocation (Noel - July 12th 2023)
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The Scrum Master leads the Daily Scrum (Koen - July 19th 2023)
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Don't worry about policies, let's just be pragmatic (Noel - July 26th 2023)
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We're agile, so let's not worry about documentation (Koen - August 2nd 2023)
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We can't release every iteration (Noel - August 9th 2023)
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One backlog for the team and another one for the business (Koen - August 16th 2023)
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As a DBA I want to... "user" story (Koen - August 30th 2023)
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Detailed 1 year plan (Noel - September 6th 2023)
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Our sprint lengths vary (Koen - September 13th 2023)
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We have an estimation committee (Noel - September 20th 2023)
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Comparing velocity across teams (Koen - September 27th 2023)
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Don't worry about sustainable pace, just keep going (Noel - October 4th 2023)
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T-shirt sizes? But we can't add them together (Koen - October 11th 2023)
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Only the Scrum Master updates Jira (Noel - October 18th 2023)
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We only review the burndown chart at the end of the sprint (Koen - October 25th 2023)
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Let's schedule this story for the sprint after the next (Noel - November 1st 2023)
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Well, on my PC it works fine (Noel - November 15th 2023)
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We must standarize the estimates across all teams (Koen - November 22nd 2023)
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Agile? Oh we've been doing that for ages... (Noel - November 29th 2023)
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Team members cherry-pick their work (Koen - December 20th 2023)
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That's ot what we do here, why should we change? (Noel - January 11th 2024)
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We don't need a Scrum master, our Lead Dev can do that (Noel - January 24th 2024)
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No stakeholders are present at the end of sprint review (Koen - January 31st 2024)
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We only communicate with stakeholders every 2 weeks (Noel - February 7th 2024)
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Let's create the full backlog before we start
We can predict the future (Koen - February 14th 2024) -
No accountability on retrospective actions (Koen - February 28th 2024)
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Definition of Done = handed over to testing (Noel - March 6th 2024)
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No need to speak to our customers, we know what they want (Koen - March 13th 2024)
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The product owner chooses the tools for the team (Noel - March 27th 2024)
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This is our Minimum Viable Product v3 (Koen - April 3rd 2024)
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Scrum master assigns work to the team (Noel - April 24th 2024)