I did a big Agile roll out and the team came up with a list of the things which might upset the Agile process – Agile gotchas.  When I have sometime I will add suggestions for how to deal with them.

• What do I do when … ?
• New high priority items are requested mid-Timebox.
• Large number of tasks in Timebox Plan are not finished by end of Timebox
• Team members are late for daily meetings or not engaged
• Product Owner does not show up to Timebox Review or not engaged
• Product Owner responsibilities with more than one person
• Product development is running in parallel with operational demands on the team
• Developers do not have time to write unit tests or get code reviewed
• Estimates go up a lot during the Timebox
• Meeting madness strikes
• Planning to use a skilled resource over more than one Agile project
• No walls are available to create Informative Workspace
• (Key) Stakeholder does not show up to the Timebox Review, or not engaged
• Developers do not work on what was planned during Timebox planning
• no space to co-locate team
• Task estimates aren’t burning (‘just 1 point left..’ lasts for days)
• Designers don’t come to the daily meetings (‘we’ll come when it’s relevant’)
• Certain tasks in the Timebox, e.g. sort our rack space, seem non-estimatable
• Agile Project Manager is late for their own daily meeting
• Team is not delivering potential shippable code at end of every Timebox
• Backend code and front end code developed out of synchronisation (in one Timebox backend is written, next Timebox its front end)
• Team does not engage properly with testers
• Product Owner not setting proper Timebox goals or no goals at all (e.g. Finish All Work, Finish Entire product)