The Dream Team Nightmare

Humble Beginnings

You ask the team members to tell you about their agile experience.

They explain that they’re the second team to have adopted agile at the company. Everything they’ve learned has been from the Dream Team: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Eventually, Team Predator took a different route because, unlike the Dream Team, they preferred to stick to the basics and get them right before deviating from the standard agile practices.

“For instance, we were all surprised at how hard something like the daily scrum could be,” explains Annabel, a business analyst. “At first, we just assumed it was a meeting for management, which was a drag. Then someone suggested we apply the Scrum principle of “inspect and adapt,” and that’s what we ...