Examples SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team 
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The Bad Apple Effect can deeply sabotage a teams performance and development. Even with talented, capable players, their respective teams often underperformed and struggled to progress in their development. Still, these negative attitudes were affecting the whole team's morale and teamwork.
Scrum.org
MARCH 27, 2025
Scrum is designed to empower teams, enhance collaboration, and increase adaptability. Yet, many teams fall into the trap of pre-assigning tasks at the start of a Sprint, believing it boosts efficiency. While the intention is good, this approach contradicts Scrums core principles and hampers performance.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Ultimately, it isn’t the project manager coming up with new requirements and asking the team to “just do it”. What’s so bad about scope creep anyway? It takes its toll on team morale.
ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 7, 2020
For example, take scrum. Scrum is a great framework for helping teams work more productively together. In fact, the name comes from rugby and like it, scrum is a team sport. Teams learn through experience, reflective meetings and specific roles that add structure and manage work.
Scrum.org
OCTOBER 8, 2024
An effective Sprint Retrospective ensures the team remains cohesive and aligned, leading to sustainable development and innovation. Still, the decision to skip a single Sprint Retrospective can adversely affect the team and the product's development process. With this reflection, teams can iterate on their process.
Scrum.org
MARCH 11, 2020
TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns. After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. The Role of the Development Team in Scrum.
Scrum.org
APRIL 7, 2025
While often associated with formal positions in a hierarchy and the power to direct others or allocate resources (a common feature of traditional management), the critical aspect for Scrum is decision-making power within a specific scope. Scrum leverages this by intentionally distributing authority.
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