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in this video I will share the top
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reasons why developers hate the scrum
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framework so much but before that let me
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share a quick story many many many years
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ago I was a developer and the
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organization the company I was working
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for was going through an agile
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transformation I quickly did my
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professional scrum Master bsm1
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certification applied for a job and got
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it I was now a scrum master so remember
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we were not using agility
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scum Gan waterful model pure waterful
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and we went through this angro
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transformation and I was a SC Master
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doing it while going through the scrum
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guide Pio Manifesto taking my psm1 I was
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convinced that developers would love the
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scrum framework and funny enough when I
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started implementing it when my
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colleagues over scrum Masters
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Consultants F came here agile coaches to
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the company started applying agility
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framework gban I was surprised to notice
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that developers hated it I went online
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and the same thing there seems to be
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this perception that developers hate the
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scrum framework but before going into
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the reasons why let's quickly talk about
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all the benefits of a scrum framework
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for developers first scrum is all about
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self organization self management ver
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scrum team ver scrum Master product
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owners developers are all
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self-managed they decide what to build
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how to build it who builds it and by
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when to build it who wouldn't love that
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put yourself in the shoes of a developer
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you are full control on how to do
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something and by when you need to
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deliver this thing obviously you would
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like it right second hierarchies flat
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structure no hierarchies if you read the
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scrum guide the latest version the
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product owner is not the CEO of a team
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the manager of the team the scrum Master
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is not here to tell developers what to
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do everyone in the team has a specific
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role or accountability but we are all at
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the same level the five scrum values
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courage commitment openness focus and
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respect who wouldn't love these values
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obviously if implemented but we'll talk
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about that more later sustainable Pace
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one of the agile principles and also one
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of the key components of a scrum
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framework we are dedering value to the
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customers every two weeks remember when
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we were working on waterful prior to the
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release you're working like that and
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gradually increasing the amount of work
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the amount of hours that you spend at
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the office until the release date and
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you're here and then it crashes down
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afterwards after the maintainance period
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maybe but every single release we
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already know that we needed to do a lot
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of overtime because we were late we were
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constantly late but with angel with
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scrub we releasing every two weeks the
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base should be sustainable one of the
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key components of angel of of scrum is
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reacting to change being adaptable to
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change our goal here is to provide value
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customers and we are always
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experimenting every two weeks we're
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releasing something to the market we are
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experimenting and experimenting means
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that we can fail learn from our failures
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and that's okay two weeks later we can
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release something better to the market
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we can't plan for one year we can't plan
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for multiple quarters in a row because
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we are releasing every two weeks that's
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how you provide value to customers
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responding to change instead of
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following a plan and what about managers
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directors other management stakeholders
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interacting with a SC framework we are
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not here to tell us what to do because
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we are self-managed we have full control
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on what to build who builds it by when
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to build it and how to build it the
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stakeholders for managers of management
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for directors are here to help us help
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us resolve impediments remove these
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blockers give us feedback on the product
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give us feedback on the team you're not
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here to tell us what to do we here as
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servant leaders that's the textbook
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version of scrum how to do it and the
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benefits that's how aile coaches scrum
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Masters Consulting companies tell you to
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implement scrum to the benefits of scrum
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but in reality I've worked with many
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companies with many scrum Masters
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hundreds of agile coaches and scrum
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Masters in different companies and it's
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always the same thing I've never a
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single time met someone in a large
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company who is applying scrum as per the
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scrum framework and getting the benefits
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of scrum never seen that what I've seen
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though are behaviors that make
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developers hate scrum and for me it all
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starts with pi planning long-term
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planning road map no matter what you
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call it planning that is more than a
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Sprint planning you're planning for
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multiple quarters you're planning for
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one year you're even planning for one
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quarter that's three months you need to
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know three months in advance they ask
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you for a high level plan high level
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estimations and what do they do they
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make you commit on these estimation on
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these dates and too often or not you
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underestimated how much time it would
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take to develop the thing I know many
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managers who tell developers but why not
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add buffers why are you always
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constantly underestimating and then
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rushing to meet the dates first it was a
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high level it was a guess you never said
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we would need to commit on that second
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when I had buffers you challenge my
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estimation and you tell me to reduce it
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so what are you talking about fix your
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problem first and stop making me commit
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on things that are unrealistic but I
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didn't commit on fast for core problem
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which causes a lot of problems down the
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line because when teams are rushed to
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meet deadlines that they never committed
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on they start cutting Corners quality
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decreases we don't have time to fix
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production issues technical debt
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increases customer value we don't care
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about customer value now we just care
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about meeting this date we are late
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we're getting pressure we're working
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overtime and to make matters worse we
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need to do all these scrum ceremonies
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daily stand up daily scrum SP planning
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retrospective why do we need to do all
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these things we are not in an
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environment where we can experiment
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where we can learn where we can fail
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where we can be self-managed no someone
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already decided that we needed to to
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release that by this date why are we
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faking it why are we doing the daily
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stand up the daily scrum spr planning
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planning one what are we planning in the
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Sprint why do you need to plan when you
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already know that you need to meet this
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date no matter what because someone in
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top management pressured you to meet
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this state why are we even doing
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planning the complete system breaks down
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crumbles when you prevent the team from
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being self managed and make them believe
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that they are s managed obviously they
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will hate scrum and some people tell you
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know that's only some companies using
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the scrum framework live but no every
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single one every single company I've
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worked with all I know scrum Masters man
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or coaches working in different
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companies no one it's always the same
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thing the focus is projects the focus is
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timeline road map deadlines that's the
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main reason why I believe developers
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hate the scrum framework so much it's
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because of a single thing being as high
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level estimations and then they force
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you to commit on that it causes so many
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other a problems down the line people
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don't see and if you want to know how to
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fix that watch this video right here and
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I'll see you in a few seconds
