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C · Quality gatesIntermediate45 min read

8. Checkpoint: ceremony without cargo cult

Agile & Scrum · 40 pages source format

Prove you can diagnose empty ritual and redesign it. Deliver a short “Agile health” note for a real or fictional team.

What you'll learn

  • Diagnosis
  • Experiment design

Health note

2 pages max. Cover: which events create feedback, which don’t, proposed DoD, one Retro experiment.

  • Sprint Goal quality: clear / mushy
  • Daily: plan sync vs status theater
  • Review: stakeholders present? Increment demoed?
  • WIP / cycle time awareness

Do this now

Publish the note. Get one peer +1 or written critique.

Clear?

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