I failed and it's okay

I've always been proud of my work and feel like I make an impact with the projects I take on. To give some background, I am Business Analyst for a development team and always push for better practices and process. This week, I've finally accepted the failure of the implementation of Scrum and not once completed a Sprint as expected. 

The beautiful thing about failure is that there is time for reflection. I could finally take a step back and analyze the situation. I blinded myself with my passion of Scrum and continued to push for more Agile processes. The team I worked on always appeared to be doing "Scrum-but":  "We will do Daily Scrums but not every day",  "We will do Sprint planning but not estimation", and many more things. I found that it requires the team to commit to the process, which people don't necessarily care how they track their work they just want to get it done.

The mistakes that I make whether small or large happened and I need to own responsibility for them. I would never grow without my failures and be destined to fail until hopefully, I recognized my ignorance. This may sound like a smaller deal for a third party reader, but I invested so much time avoiding failure I never accepted failure as an option. I failed and it's okay.

tl;dr

I tried to implement Scrum but learned to accept failure sometimes.