Almost every IT team on earth will tell you they do Agile. Almost none of them actually do. They have the standups, the sprints, the board covered in tickets, all the ceremonies. And they have missed the entire point of why any of it exists.
It is not that anyone is lying on purpose. Somewhere along the way Agile stopped meaning a way of working and started meaning a set of meetings. The ceremonies are easy to copy in a week. The actual thing Agile asks for is hard, because it means giving up control. So most places keep the control and perform the ceremonies, then wonder why nothing got better.
In this video, I cover:
- The four ideas every Agile ceremony was invented to serve
- The standup that is really a status meeting with better branding
- Why a sprint whose scope keeps changing is just a treadmill
- The retro that is group therapy on a schedule
- The backlog nobody has ranked, and prioritization by panic and politics
- The product owner who cannot say no, and the one rule that fixed a miserable team
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