Agile Anti-Patterns: The Leader’s Guide to Agile Traps, Tripwires, and Treachery

Knowing the basics of being agile is essential for any agile leader, but out in the trenches, a good agilist must be ready to identify and deal with agile anti-patterns to help their team and organization move forward. What's an agile anti-pattern? Something that at first blush may seem benign or even useful—but in practice is usually dangerous to an agile initiative. These are often first expressed as harmless-sounding quotes from your team such as “I was pulled off this sprint and put onto an emergency project. Again.” Although often slippery to catch, it's important to identify these anti-patterns quickly since they can damage your organization. In this interactive session, participants gather a wealth of agile anti-pattern knowledge and a toolset that can be used to remedy these troubling but common problems in the field by using data collected from The Agile Anti-Patterns Project and the real-world anti-patterns participants bring to the session. Leave with a game plan to begin addressing the problems you face as an agile leader.