Identifying how Scrum can break down
Scrum is hard, much harder than it looks from a simple review of the Scrum Guide and memorization of its empirical process control foundations and product-oriented team structures, events, and artifacts. It's even more challenging to scale Scrum across a large product or as an organization-wide implementation.
In this section, you will come to understand that there are innumerable pitfalls that can lead to Scrum implementation failures, both at the product and organizational levels, and how to resolve these issues at the start. Each subsection addresses a particular issue but also provides a discussion on how the organization can avoid or at least minimize the problems.
Lacking executive sponsorship
Executive-level support is a critical success factor for any Scrum implementation. Because Scrum is ultimately about changing the values and the principles that guide the organization, a move to implement Scrum on any scale will run headfirst...
