Common Agile coaching challenges

Last updated Jun 5, 2023

Common challenges:

• Managing a stable Product roadmap
• Incomplete implementation of Scrum
• Experiencing a lack of stability within the team

Unstable roadmap causes:

• Product ambition
• Product assumptions

Example:

• Product leadership is overly ambitious about what the team can realistically deliver

Solutions:

• Agree up front how to handle new opportunities
• Set up regular roadmap reviews with the entire team
• Promote sharing knowledge between the Product owner and the Development team (or Developers)

Too many assumptions can jeopardize the team’s success.

Solutions:

• Document the assumptions and make them transparent
• Check assumptions against unbiased user research
  • Gather information about what users really want
  • Allows you to confirm or reject assumptions

• Loss of clear Scrum roles and responsibilities
• Tempted to skip some events or blend them to save time
• Not providing the team with the Scrum coaching they need
  • Coaching an Agile team

Solutions:

• Implement Scrum completely
• Make sure Scrum roles are well defined and properly fulfilled

• Change in team composition

Solutions:

• Quick onboarding process
• Pair programming
• Have shorter Sprint