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The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide: Challenges Every Scrum Team Faces and How to Overcome Them (The Professional Scrum Series) 1st Edition

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Unlock Scrum success for beginners and experts alike with The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide, your key to understanding and elevating Scrum practices.

Scrum is simple to understand but difficult to master. As a framework, Scrum is particularly challenging as there is no formal education tailored to these roles and no comprehensive set of practices readily available to those interested in applying it. The Scrum Guide 2020 describes its underlying principles only in the broadest strokes--from applying Scrum to complex adaptive problems to embracing self-management--but the Scrum Guide is not at all prescriptive about how Scrum Teams work.

The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide compiles the most common challenges that every Scrum Team faces and how to remedy them. Stefan Wolpers uses the Scrum Guide as a template to structure the content, thus supporting the junior practitioner’s Scrum discovery journey (categorized by roles, events, artifacts, and commitments) while allowing the more experienced reader to use the book to reference individual problems or situations.

  • Addresses Scrum anti-patterns for both novices and experienced practitioners
  • Offers actionable insights into why Scrum implementations fall short and how to improve
  • Covers real-time course corrections and improvements in Scrum practice

Maximize Scrum success with this quick reference to the most common Scrum anti-patterns and how to resolve them.

"Stefan Wolpers has a remarkable ability to highlight underlying traps and issues for stakeholders, teams, and process. Wolpers documents sources of waste and frustration, an amazing compendium of typical ways progress becomes blocked. Depressing! He doesn’t leave us there though. He also recommends insightful remedies. Uplifting!"

--Diana Larsen, speaker, advisor, author, and co-developer of the Agile Fluency® Model

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  6. Part of series
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Stefan Wolpers is a Professional Scrum Trainer at Scrum.org, Agile Coach, and Scrum Master, specializing in guiding agile transformations through practices like Scrum, LeSS, Kanban, Lean Startup, and professional product management. He’s a licensed Agile Fluency™ Team Diagnostic facilitator with a history of senior leadership roles. His agile coaching focuses on scaling product delivery for fast-growing, venture-capital-backed startups as well as transitioning existing teams in established enterprises. Stefan curates the widely-followed "Food for Agile Thought" newsletter, engaging 50,000+ global Agile enthusiasts. He shares insights on Age-of-Product.com, hosts a vibrant Slack community of 18,000+ agile practitioners, and has authored e-books on agile themes, garnering over 100,000 downloads.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (January 9, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0137977964
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0137977963
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.44 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.82 x 7.13 inches
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Stefan is a Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org and has worked many years as a Scrum Master, product manager, Product Owner, and agile coach (Scrum, LeSS, Lean Startup, Lean Change).

He has served in senior leadership positions several times throughout his career. His agile coaching expertise focuses on scaling product delivery organizations of fast-growing, venture-capital funded startups, and transitioning existing product teams in established enterprise organizations.

Stefan curates the ‘Food for agile Thought’ newsletter on agile product development with more than 46,000 subscribers. He also hosts the largest global Slack community for agile people — ‘Hands-on Agile’ — with more than 12,000 members. (As of June 2023.)

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  • Tim P.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Get this book!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2024
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    This book is an essential read for anyone working in Agile environments. The book offers clear, practical insights into common pitfalls teams face when implementing and practicing Scrum, and provides actionable strategies to overcome them that you can quickly adapt to your team. Its straightforward approach and real-world examples make it a valuable resource for both new and experienced practitioners. I find myself revisiting it often, as its guidance is both relevant and effective for continuous improvement in Scrum practices.
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  • V. Zanini
    5.0 out of 5 stars Learn what to do and not do in Scrum
    Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2024
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    This new book from Stefan has been in the making for a long time. He has worked with dozens of Scrum Teams and has collected a list of tips for what to do to help the teams improve, and - especially important - what not to do. The anti-patterns are behaviors, practices, and activities that Scrum teams do, and they should not be doing.
    In reading this book I discovered how common some of these anti-patterns are. Stefan provides an explanation of what's wrong, and gives advice on what to do to improve.
    Overall, this is a great book for every Scrum Master's library and for anyone interested in learning how to help a team succeed with Scrum, while avoiding the typical traps.
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  • Pam Walters
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2024
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    Great book for analyzing anti-patterns!
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  • Justin Bisaillon
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have for those using Scrum
    Reviewed in Canada on September 22, 2024
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    I cannot speak more highly about this book. In absence of experience, this book can be your friend in navigating specific challenges (anti-patterns) when using Scrum. It’s tactical. Just grab what you need.

    Well done Stefan Wolpers!
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  • Rajesh R
    5.0 out of 5 stars The magic to unlock your dysfunctions
    Reviewed in India on September 23, 2024
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    IMHO, this is a must read book for anyone working in a Scrum ecosystem. It depicts the real-time issues faced in a typical scrum team/environment. The book succinctly captures the anti-patterns(pitfalls,traps) across events, artifacts and the accountabilities and also helps us in understanding the finer nuances in handling these anti-patterns.

    While this is a great book to have for any Scrum practitioner, I personally felt that this is really a wonderful collection to have for a Scrum Master or an Agile coach. It helps as a platform to augument your thought process while dealing with any particular dysfunction. This is what i found out. A great book indeed!!
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  • Lopo Lencastre de Almeida
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must have
    Reviewed in Spain on April 29, 2024
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    If you work with Scrum this is a must have. Very easy to learn and with a lot's of examples and advise so you can avoid the common traps.
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  • Edyta Hetman
    5.0 out of 5 stars A solid companion for all Scrum Masters
    Reviewed in Germany on April 2, 2024
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    Stefan's book is written like a compendium, listing malaises troubling Scrum teams and providing remedies. It's well organised and offers sound advice which will help beginning Scrum Master steer clear of common pitfalls and motivate the seasoned ones to treat each new team with the same diligence. Scrum Mastery is a craft and no matter where you are in your journey, Stefan has got you covered.
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    A solid companion for all Scrum Masters

    Reviewed in Germany on April 2, 2024
    Stefan's book is written like a compendium, listing malaises troubling Scrum teams and providing remedies. It's well organised and offers sound advice which will help beginning Scrum Master steer clear of common pitfalls and motivate the seasoned ones to treat each new team with the same diligence. Scrum Mastery is a craft and no matter where you are in your journey, Stefan has got you covered.
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  • Florin Manolescu
    5.0 out of 5 stars Your guide to continuous improvement
    Reviewed in Germany on March 25, 2024
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    This is one of the best Scrum books out there. Stefan did a tremendous job and provided tons of practical and easy to use tips for Scrum practitioners for overcoming daily challenges and anti-patterns. I had a great time reading the book and I recalled many times what I personally experienced in my real life. A must read book!
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