Team may be tempted to deliver half baked pieces of work to meet the Sprint deadline
Does your Customer need to know delivery dates long in advance?
Considering SCRUM?
Before you start, know its drawbacks
Stress: Team will always be sprinting
"There are only two times I feel stress"
"Day ...
... and night"
Is your team self-organized?
SCRUM may be a great competitive advantage:
CHAOS Report 2011 (Mike Cohn's blog)
SCRUM is all about Transparency:
http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/agile-succeeds-three-times-more-often-than-waterfall
Team knows any time what should be done
Customer knows what will be delivered
If something goes wrong, you will know it in a few weeks
Successful: 14%
Challenged: 57%
Failed: 29%
Successful: 42%
Challenged: 49%
Failed: 9%
SCRUM Pros and Cons
by Antonio Martel, Project Manager
antoniomartel@gmail.com
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