Succeeding with Agile

Proactively Manage Dependencies

For the most part, Tom’s project was moving along fairly well: The teams had become accustomed to the iterative and incremental nature of Scrum and were beginning to truly embrace automated testing, test-driven development, and even pair programming. Tom had embraced his new role as ScrumMaster with only a few remaining traces of his previous life as a command-and-control project manager. After every sprint, Tom’s two teams would demonstrate the new functionality in their online payment and money transfer application. The stakeholders were pleased at the progress. Usually. Every now and then, Tom’s teams would complete only a small portion of what they’d committed to. The teams used their retrospectives to consider ...