
Things you should not hear from an agile coach (but might). #NotMyAgile is satire.
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Stakeholder collaboration is optional when your instincts are elite.
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Team goals hide who’s pulling their weight.
Individual iteration goals will fix that.
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We don’t need hypotheses.
We need ROI guaranteed upfront.
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As your coach, it’s my responsibility to make sure you use the frameworks I’m most comfortable with.
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Customer satisfaction is nice, but business value is measured in dollars to shareholders.
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Consensus is slow.
It’s better if I make the calls for you.
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Security approvals stuck?
That’s governance, not an impediment.
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The fastest way to become self-organizing is to do exactly what I say.
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You don’t need stakeholder validation when you already know what’s right.
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If you’re truly an excellent product manager, then you know better than the stakeholders and do not need to collaborate with them. Just do what you want and prove your awesomeness. It’ll be fine.
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Business Value?
Either the story made money for us or it didn’t. That’s all the business value we need to think about.
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I see that you are using tasks as part of your stories in the agile tracking system. I understand you also think you're doing kanban. But kanban doesn't have tasks. So you're not doing Kanban.
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Teamwork got us here, but individual goals will take us further.
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Last few iterations you worked together and completed your iteration goals. Now we’re gonna really rock this. Starting this iteration, each of you will have your own goal.
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If the team isn’t meeting velocity targets, the scrum master should stop shielding them and start pushing them harder.
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My job as coach is to remove uncertainty by making the decisions.
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Ten years of delivery is interesting.
But letters after your name is convincing.
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Maturity means every team does things exactly the same way.
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Self-organization is the end goal.
But we’ll start with me organizing you.
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The whole point of a retrospective is to explain to the team why their lack of velocity is unacceptable.
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