The Good In Scrum
From the Manifesting Business Agility Blog
by Al Shalloway
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This post begins a series of blogs I'll be making on the good and weaknesses of Scrum and how the PMI's offerings of Disciplined Agile and FLEX will provide a better path.
Scrum is widespread because there is a lot of good in it.
Here's some of the good:
- Co-located, self-directed, cross-functional teams
- All team members are equally responsible for the quality of the code.
- Someone needs to have responsibility on what to build
- A coach outside of developers is usually useful
- Limit work in process
- Track completed work
- Avoid interruptions
- Quick feedback
- quick pivots
- regular retrospections
- Cadence
- Small stories
- Regular demos
- Visibility of work
There are two things to learn from this list. First, regardless of your method, you should be achieving these values. Second, Scrum is a way of accomplishing these. Think of Scrum as a collection of ways to get things done. There may be a better collection that fits your teams. Don't worry about whether this better collection is Scrum or not.
Posted on: October 29, 2019 09:18 AM |
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Luis Branco
CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª
Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dear Al
Thanks for sharing the topics that will address future reflections
I will be attentive and read carefully
Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Al
I agree with most of what you've mentioned but not sure about Scrum being used to Limit work in progress.Establishing Timeboxes doesn't really limit work in progress. WIP Limits are best achieved using Kanban.
RK
Al Shalloway
Founder and CEO| Success Engineering
Edmonds, Wa, United States
they don't do it very well - agreed. But it is a limit. :)
You'll see me discuss things like this in later posts.
Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Sounds Good. I look forward for your future posts.
Very interesting., thanks for sharing
I think Scrum is a very interesting way of work, it is easy to understand but it is difficult to apply. It could be applied with success only if the organization is according with this new way of work.
Al Shalloway
Founder and CEO| Success Engineering
Edmonds, Wa, United States
Scrum has a lot of good in it, but it also leaves a lot out. I'll be writing more on that in another few days. The biggest challenge for me with Scrum, however, is mostly about the way it is taught, lack of systems thinking, and that it only works well when cross-crossfunctional teams are possible and advisable - which is not always.
Abel Camelo
Project Manager | Business Consultant| Angular Consulting
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Thank you for the inputs ;-)
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