According to Ken schwaber the success rate on implementing scrum is 35%. According to my friend Michael Vizdos the success rate is less than that. So it would come as no surprise if your organization fails to implement scrum, however what did they do to support it?

Your organization might not support scrum if:

1. Priority isn't treated top down in a serial process.ie Priority 1 is worked on until it's finished then priority 2 is tackled.
2. People are asked to work on secret projects to accomplish them.
3. Team impediments never get looked at by anyone above middle management.
4. The culture of command and control never changes to support empowered teams.
5. commitments are more important than reality
6. blame is cast from department to department
7. visibility stops at middle management so a spin can be put on it for the executives.
8. punishment for bringing execs 'bad news'
9. "it's worked for 30 years we're not going to change" type of comments (unwillingness to respond and adapt)
10. Team isn't supplied with the appropriate resources or tools. (whiteboards, conference rooms, collocated workspaces, etc)
11. Training/Mentoring is ignored.
12. Unwillingness to grease squeaky wheels.

What things have you seen?