Agile Challenges Weekly Tips
2h 23mGeneral2019-09-25
Authors

Kelley O'Connell
Agile Trainer, Project Manager, Process Innovator
Course details
There are many resources for getting started with agile, but few for troubleshooting when agile goes wrong. This series helps you identify and resolve common issues that project teams face when practicing agile. Certified ScrumMaster and agile coach Kelly O'Connell covers challenges such as team dysfunction, siloed activity, misaligned sprint commitments, and lack of training. Her tips address the problems that aren't covered in most agile courses, and give you innovative solutions to help lead your agile team through challenges on the way to success.
Learning objectives
Diagnosing problems within an agile team
Solving issues with agile meetings
Creating cross-functional teams
Helping distributed teams function well
Managing up within your organization
Learning objectives
Diagnosing problems within an agile team
Solving issues with agile meetings
Creating cross-functional teams
Helping distributed teams function well
Managing up within your organization
Skills covered
Serial (Weekly)Agile Project ManagementProject Management
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - What you should know
Agile Challenges
- 03 - We don't get along
- 04 - We don't work together
- 05 - Everyone is still siloed
- 06 - No one knows what we're doing
- 07 - We can't see beyond our current sprint
- 08 - Our sprint commitments are wrong
- 09 - We don't have needed skills
- 10 - Everything gets stuck in testing
- 11 - Let's go back to waterfall
- 12 - Stand-up is dysfunctional
- 13 - No one contributes in retrospective
- 14 - The team doesn't know what to build
- 15 - Distributed team collaboration
- 16 - Clues in your burndown chart
- 17 - No one comes to sprint review
- 18 - No one speaks up in planning
- 19 - No one wants to learn a new skill
- 20 - We don't have time for new skills
- 21 - We need a specialist
- 22 - Cross-team dependencies
- 23 - What time is stand-up
- 24 - Building open communication
- 25 - Working with remote stakeholders
- 26 - Engaging sponsors with remote teams
- 27 - Coaching the resource manager
- 28 - Building a community of practice
- 29 - Dealing with change management
- 30 - Influencing decision makers
- 31 - Scrum master speaks for the team
- 32 - What to do when no obstacles are raised
- 33 - The team always has carry over stories
- 34 - Maintaining architectural alignment
- 35 - The team is burned out
- 36 - Sprint zero lasts more than four weeks
- 37 - Solutioning in stand-up meeting
- 38 - Scrum master is assigning tasks
- 39 - Scrum master is a team contributor
- 40 - Projects always have a phase two
- 41 - Absentee scrum master
- 42 - Stand-up meeting is more than 15 minutes
- 43 - No one listens in the stand-up meeting
- 44 - The story is not ready for sprint planning
- 45 - Acceptance criteria are unclear
- 46 - Story sizing is inconsistent
- 47 - The team always overcommits
- 48 - The team always undercommits
- 49 - The team does not swarm
- 50 - Product owner says how to build the product
- 51 - Shifting to a more agile mindset
- 52 - The scrum master uses a commanding style
- 53 - The team finishes sprints early
- 54 - Product owner is never around
Related courses
- Fixing Scrum Team Problems
- Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team
- Becoming an Agile Leader: Mastering the Mindset, Skills, and Strategies to Succeed
- Software Testing: Alpha Testing in an Agile World
- Agile at Work: Getting Better with Agile Retrospectives
- Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team (2015)
- Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories (2015)
- Agile at Work: Driving Productive Agile Meetings (2015)
Related learn paths
- Develop Your Skills in Agile Software Development
- Getting Started with Agile Software Development
- Getting Started as an Agile Project Manager
- Advance Your Skills as a User Experience Researcher
- Become a Technical Program Manager
- Prepare for the PMI-ACP Certification
- Develop Your Skills as a Software Project Manager
- Become a Portfolio Manager