I was working with a team of project managers recently and discussing how scrum works. One of the audience asked me how scrum teams handle third party dependencies. I answered as completely as I could but her response left me temporarily speechless.
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The Truth About Agile Transformations That All Organizations Must Know
I regularly meet organizations that are excited about their upcoming agile transformation. In the face of that positive atmosphere, it’s hard to point out that adopting agile and scrum has hidden costs. In the past, I’ve always mentioned two sobering statistics. I’ve just added a third.
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?
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.
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?