The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide: Challenges Every Scrum Team Faces and How to Overcome Them

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Increment Anti-Patterns

Introduction

Ultimately, Scrum is a framework that enables iterative and incremental product development in a complex environment by delivering in short bursts—called Sprints—to mitigate the risk of moving in the wrong direction. However, avoiding building something no user or customer wants requires closing the learning loop as frequently as possible.

Consequently, the only way to create value is to ship Increments to the real users and listen to their feedback; just building a “potentially shippable” Increment does not do the trick. Anything that the Scrum Team does not release is just work of unknown value.

Whenever possible, Scrum Teams should release their Increments to customers to obtain direct feedback. Cloud-based ...