Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast

Iryna Stelmakh: When "Agile" Becomes a License to Change Everything, The Cost of No Rules in Backlog Management 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.   "For me, it was pretty hard to explain that Agile is about cost reduction, and not about cost increasing." — Iryna Stelmakh   Iryna shares a story from one of her first projects as a Scrum Master, working with a client from Israel who saw Scrum as an open invitation to add anything to the backlog at any time. For this client, agility meant unlimited flexibility — the freedom to extend not just the product backlog but the sprint backlog, multiple times per sprint. As Vasco points out, this is a pattern many teams recognize: when there's no cost to disrupting a sprint, it becomes effortless to keep piling on work, destroying the very predictability that sprints are designed to create.   Iryna struggled to push