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Top Ten Ways to Survive a Scrumming Organization

June 14th, 2008

10. Leave an unfinished task for yourself to pick up for next sprint if you don’t want to get assigned one you don’t want
9. Cause meeting conflicts to happen with Scrum meetings so that you can miss the Scrum ones with a good reason
8. Always, always over estimate for anything you are asked which helps your velocity look great at the end
7. Don’t volunteer too much information, it just causes more work for you and everyone else
6. Work on Open Source, it will make you feel better
5. Pickup every Training opportunity or Conference trip to get away from the Daily Scrum Meetings
4. Find a way to add tasks to the PBL to justify adding team members
3. Write a Perl script on a Cron job to update your Sprint task hours daily
2. Have a backup plan for when your Organization collapses from Scrum
1. Start a blog


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