1. 7 Deadly Sins of an Agile
Manager
by Nadia Zemskova

2. @nadiazemskova
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3. • Denmark – Ukraine – Philippines
• 70+ IT professionals
• Claims processing (Auto, Building, Content)
• Agile since 2009
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5. Photo by C Jill Reed
Agile is not a religion…

7. Photo by bradleypjohnson
Segment the audience

8. Sin #1
Compare
teams
velocities Photo by U.S. Army IMCOM
Photo by Paul-W

9. TV
3 products
6 teams

10. …same story points
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11. Velocity
ratio

12. Why does this
team has higher
velocity ratio?

13. Started 2-week
sprints

14. Sin #2: Relax & stop where you are

15. Above target on
average, let’s
relax?

16. Too big for daily scrum

17. More than 1 KPI…
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18. Sin #3: Forget useful practices

19. Burnup chart

20. Sin #4: Keep useless practices
Photo by Dilip Muralidaran

21. Photo by Will Clayton

23. Sin #5: Ideal Scrum

24. Please add this
feature to the
sprint
We can’t.
Scrum doesn’t
allow changing
the Sprint Backlog

25. 25
Modified sprint cycle: 3+1

27. Sin #6: Tell what to do
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29. Sin #7: Call people“Resources”

30. Strategic
Project
Product update

31. Remember the goal
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32. What are your sins?
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