Lean Anti-Patterns and What to Do About Them

When attempting to adopt best practices we often can't see the forest for the trees.  We can see what we are doing wrong, but how will that help us to see what to do right?  In this article, we will discuss a few common Lean Anti-Patterns. Anti-Patterns are commonly recurring practices that are counter productive.  We call them "Lean" Anti-Patterns because these anti-patterns result from violating Lean principles.  Lean principles form the basis for Scrum practices.  Looking at how Lean Anti-Patterns violate lean principles gives us insight into how we need to modify our practices to be more effective.