Meet Your Team

Today is your first day at Love Inc., an award-winning online dating business. You’ve just been introduced to your new team as their agile coach.

“We call ourselves the ‘Dream Team,’” begins Ben, the team lead, as he shakes your hand. “Most of us come from a waterfall background. We’ve been experimenting with the agile methodology for the past eighteen months and things just don’t seem to be working out.”

“What specific challenges is the team facing?” you ask the group.

“We’ve been wasting our time on getting the team to collaborate instead of building our product,” blurts out Jason, one of the developers.

“We run around like headless chickens,” says Matt, another developer. “I’ve been with the company since it started ...

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