Succeeding with Agile

Waterfallacies and Agile Phobias

Many of the specific arguments you’ll hear against Scrum are predictable and common across many organizations. Others, of course, will be unique to your organization. You can often anticipate the arguments you’ll hear by thinking through the challenges presented by your organization, domain, technologies, products, culture, and people. In doing so, you’ll find that many of the objections (both the universal and the specific ones) can be categorized as either waterfallacies or agile phobias. A waterfallacy is a mistaken belief or idea about agile or Scrum created from working too long on waterfall projects. Examples include

• Scrum teams don’t plan, so we’re unable to make commitments to customers.

• Scrum requires ...