Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast

Iryna Stelmakh: Fighting Agile Theater, When Organizations Adopt the Ceremonies But Not the Mindset Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes.   "Transparency can be uncomfortable, but without transparency, there is no real improvement." — Iryna Stelmakh   Iryna brings a challenge she calls "Agile Theater" — organizations that implement all the visible parts of Agile (the ceremonies, the boards, the terminology) while the underlying mindset remains unchanged. Decisions stay centralized, transparency is avoided, and problems are hidden. As she puts it: "Teams go through the emotions of Agile without actually benefiting from it."   But her real challenge goes deeper. Iryna shares a story about building trust with outsourcing clients. Five days into a new assignment on a project the company had worked on for over ten years, she received an email listing team members