Agile Anti-Patterns

Antipattern:
Command-and-control Scrum
• Command-and-Control project
managers feel like they create and
“own” the schedule by themselves
• They get estimates from the team
and create the plan on their own
• Team Leads assign work to the
team members to do exactly what’s
required by the plan
• This can lead to “water-Scrum-fall”:
the project is planned up front, and
iterations are just project phases
This is a better-than-not-doing-it result. It gets the
job done, but the team could be much more effective.