5 signs your agile development process must change
5 signs your agile development process must change
Shallow backlogs, missed commitments, low morale, and defects may indicate your agile process needs more than a few minor tweaks Credit: Dreamstime
Do you call your agile development process “fragile,” “hybrid waterfall,” or “fake agile”? Is your agile backlog more like a request queue or a task board? More specifically, are the agile development teams exhibiting any of these 15 signs that you’re doing agile wrong?
Maybe your agile development process isn’t that bad, and teams are sprinting, releasing, and satisfying customers. Perhaps teams have matured agile methodologies, formalised release management, established agile estimating disciplines, and developed story writing standards.
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Do you call your agile development process “fragile,” “hybrid waterfall,” or “fake agile”? Is your agile backlog more like a request queue or a task board? More specifically, are the agile development teams exhibiting any of these 15 signs that you’re doing agile wrong?
Maybe your agile development process isn’t that bad, and teams are sprinting, releasing, and satisfying customers. Perhaps teams have matured agile methodologies, formalized release management, established agile estimating disciplines, and developed story writing standards. Hopefully, they’ve partnered with operations teams, and their agile tools integrate with version control, CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) pipelines, and observability platforms.