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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.
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What is the meaning of scrum? (Sounds like a variation on a Monty Python film). What does scrum mean? Is it an acronym?
In brief, the software development term ‘scrum’ is a lightweight framework for developing, delivering, and sustaining complex products.
Let’s look at that in a little more detail.
Here are the facts.
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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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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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In this article, I introduce a simple, killer idea to boost a software team’s productivity. It’s incredibly easy to implement, plays to the strengths of management and software teams alike and produces noticeable improvements almost immediately. All software teams should be doing this but, most aren’t.
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