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Agile Bullshit: Discover the most damaging anti-patterns in your organisation & how to avoid them
A must-have book for Agile practitioners, Product strategists, Technology leaders, Delivery managers, Developers, Team Leaders and anyone else involved in product development and software delivery.
Why? Because it’s designed to shortcut your journey to success by revealing the worst anti-patterns so that you can surface them, avoid them and maybe even laugh at them. After all, you have likely heard plenty of bullshit over the years.
The book encourages you to be playful and creative when discussing these. With deliberately provocative wording and a cheeky sense of humour, it provides a vehicle to highlight and magnify a situation, poke fun at it, make it clear what’s wrong and most importantly what to do instead - based on conversations and insights from over 200 agile practitioners.
The authors don’t pretend to know everything or that the book can solve all your problems. They won’t promise you utopia. They certainly won’t prescribe a particular way of working. However, they know that incorrectly applying certain practices can predictably lead to unwanted results. That’s where they want you to focus your attention.
We should be looking to continuously improve. To be open and show courage. To work with a set of common principles and values. Anything else… well that’s just bullshit…
Why? Because it’s designed to shortcut your journey to success by revealing the worst anti-patterns so that you can surface them, avoid them and maybe even laugh at them. After all, you have likely heard plenty of bullshit over the years.
The book encourages you to be playful and creative when discussing these. With deliberately provocative wording and a cheeky sense of humour, it provides a vehicle to highlight and magnify a situation, poke fun at it, make it clear what’s wrong and most importantly what to do instead - based on conversations and insights from over 200 agile practitioners.
The authors don’t pretend to know everything or that the book can solve all your problems. They won’t promise you utopia. They certainly won’t prescribe a particular way of working. However, they know that incorrectly applying certain practices can predictably lead to unwanted results. That’s where they want you to focus your attention.
We should be looking to continuously improve. To be open and show courage. To work with a set of common principles and values. Anything else… well that’s just bullshit…
257 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 31, 2025
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May 7, 2025
Highly recommended. Just a great fun read. I am learning that team function and dysfunction is a passion for me. I see work sometimes as a game (with respect) that we can play and agile is the framework with just enough flexibility to allow the game to actually be fun.
I could feel after reading this book a desire to apply EVERYTHING all at once with a desire to see MEGA improvement. :D Not an ideal strategy. Instead, will work a few key points and experiences into the work over time.
I've ordered the card deck and look forward to working bits of this into future work. Serendipity was at play when I noticed a partner in scrum crimes (Julius M.) finished reading this and I took notice on my Goodreads feed... #thank_you!
I could feel after reading this book a desire to apply EVERYTHING all at once with a desire to see MEGA improvement. :D Not an ideal strategy. Instead, will work a few key points and experiences into the work over time.
I've ordered the card deck and look forward to working bits of this into future work. Serendipity was at play when I noticed a partner in scrum crimes (Julius M.) finished reading this and I took notice on my Goodreads feed... #thank_you!
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