Do these sound familiar?
- Backlog zombies – stories that never die. Do stories carry-over from sprint to sprint with little or no measurable progress? This is bad for progress, expensive, confusing, and bad for morale.
- We talk velocity but we don’t see it. Or we are burning down the backlog, but we aren’t actually building the right thing.
- Mission disonnect. Do individual contributors know how their assigned stories align to the epic? Epic to the roadmap? Roadmap to Product Strategy? Do .. you have a Product Strategy? Is everyone onboard?
- Doubt in the process. Are you implementing agile as “best practice” but getting worst outcomes or no outcome at all?
- I know what customers want. But maybe I don’t.
These are all symptoms of a Product in jeopardy.
