What Scrum 20 would look like if Scrum really put Lean in
From the Manifesting Business Agility Blog
by Al Shalloway
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SG20 says: Scrum is founded on empiricism and lean thinking. Lean thinking reduces waste and focuses on the essentials
While I have long considered Scrum to be a partial implementation of Lean, I don't see any more Lean in Scrum 20 when I first said this 13 yrs ago
Here are a few principles that'd be helpful:
1) delays in workflow and feedback cause waste
2) releasing something before it's ready causes waste
3) small batches are good
4) have explicit workflow to improve collaboration
5) manage queues to avoid delays
These principles help inform practices that would be useful to teams. In particular, when multiple teams need to work together or when true cross-functional teams are difficult to form. Lean principles can provide out of the box solutions that are quite useful
The irony, of course, is you may come up with better practices than the ones you must follow to be doing Scrum.
Posted on: December 06, 2020 10:34 AM |
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Taoufik Eiadeh
Project Manager| Huawei
Abu Dhabi, Az, United Arab Emirates
Very helpful, in principle what has to be done is to change the mindset of the people.
Very interesting., thanks for sharing.
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