Top 10 Mistakes made by new agile Teams in IT

The following is a collection of the 10 most common mistakes that a new agile team can make in IT.

  1. Fear
  2. Poor communication
  3. Poor team structure
  4. Poor estimation & Picking incomplete backlog items
  5. Poor planning
  6. Poor testing
  7. Ignoring customer/user feedback
  8. Lack of team empowerment
  9. Lack of retrospective and demo meetings
  10. No plan to address employee resistance

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Product Development

If one woman can make a baby in 9 months, then 9 women can make a baby in 30 days. Now you may laugh, but this is the most common problem in developing a new product. Throwing more resources at the problem and praying it goes away does not solve anything.

These are not only the 7 Deadly Sins of Product Development. If you have something to do with IT-Projects they will sound familiar to you too.

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