In my work as a coach, I regularly meet organizations that are excited about adopting scrum. In the face of that positive atmosphere, it’s hard to point out that scrum has hidden costs. In the past, I’ve always mentioned two sobering statistics. I’m just about to add a third.
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Transparency; The First Casualty of a Scrum Transition
The three pillars of empricism are: Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation. Without transparency, your inspection is rendered worthless and any adaptations based on that inspection are flawed. This is basic and obvious. Everyone can understand it. Yet many scrum adoptions suffer because of it.
Why do we make such an obvious and fundamental mistake? Here’s one perspective, and one solution.
What Does Scrum Mean?
What is the meaning of scrum? (Sounds like a variation on a Monty Python film). What does scrum mean? Is it an acronym? Here are the facts.
Six Benefits of Scrum (most organisations aren’t getting)
When scrum is implemented well, organizations and scrum teams gain six major benefits. When scrum is implemented poorly, they don’t. Are you getting these benefits? How’s your scrum implementation going?
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Can Personal Scrum be Used for a Team of One?
Scrum is a framework created to help teams of 3-9 people develop and sustain complex products. Can it be used by a ‘scrum’ of one? And if it can, what skills do you need to make it work?
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