A product's owner point of view on whether you are running an agile or fragile scrum based on lessons learned.

1. How to know if you’re
Iasonas Antonopoulos
Product Development, M-STAT
agile OR fragile

2. » BSc Physics & MSc Telecoms
» Phd in Computer Sciences
» 10+ years of strategy & creative
consulting
» Practicing agile for ~1 year
» In ♥ with PMD

3. POs THE DEVILDO NOT

4. agile OR fragile?

5. Team

6. » The team acts as one.
» Roles are clear and respected
by everyone in the
organization.
» Team is dedicated to the sprint
goal.
» Scrum master is master &
servant.
» The “us vs them” symptom.
» Roles and tasks of teams are
blurry and overtaken by others.
» Everyone is involved in many
projects.
» Scrum master is simply a title.
agile side fragile side

7. Change
management

8. » Changes are embraced as part
of project/product delivery.
» Changes are driven by the PO
to add CV.
» Changes are managed through
the backlog.
» Change is used as cover for
poor planning.
» Changes are driven by
everyone for any reason.
» Changes are added to the
sprint affecting everyone’s
WLB.
agile side fragile side

9. Quality
assurance

10. » Clear is better than clever.
» Focus on delivering working
software into smaller chunks.
» If a feature doesn’t work it
will not be shipped.
» Definition of done is widely
understood by everyone in
the organization.
» Quality over schedule.
» Agile eliminates the need to
document.
» Focus is on delivering, period.
» Deployment strategy:
“Ship and repair”
» Accept substandard features
+ large numbers of issues + a
promise of future
improvements.
» Schedule over quality.
agile side fragile side

11. Process
management

12. » All processes have value and
enable consistency and speed.
» Processes are challenged to
ensure that only the necessary
tasks are performed &
optimized.
» Continuous improvement
through retrospective and
continuous challenge of
processes.
» All processes are killed.
» All processes are killed.
» The team doesn’t challenge
processes and is reluctant to
change.
agile side fragile side

15. Inspire the team, embrace product value and
outcomes of your agile process.
Dismiss all of the outcomes as failures of
individuals, change and evolve your process
continuously.
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16. Thank you
iasonas.antonopoulos@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/iasonasantonopoulos