Sit down.

And listen. This is important.

Really (smile).

If you are on a Scrum Team, either as the ScrumMaster, Product Owner, or Team Member and are looking around your team room today asking yourself, “Why the heck are we using Scrum on this project,” you are not alone.

It turns out that the majority of projects that start using Scrum actually fail.

Wow.

This supports my statement that Scrum is not a “Silver Bullet” for software development.

If your team is not working out…. I would not recommend doing what our intrepid ScrumMaster above is saying to the team, because the response will probably be much the same.

Gulp.

So what the heck do you do?

Try using Scrum.

If things are not going well, make sure you are following “the basics” of Scrum. It is not Rocket Science.

Take a look around this site and do some research on the Internet — there is a lot out there to help you.

However.

And this is a big one.

If it is not working, STOP calling it Scrum and move on.

If not, you can pretty much guarantee yourself and the team of dying a slow, iterative, and incremental death march.

Do you understand the implications of the above statement?

Really?

Gotta run….

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