Developers become self-managing; managers
become leaders who enable. I see about 20-30% turnover in enterprises adopting
Scrum because some people don’t like or just can’t operate in this
way. Scrum builds on well known principles, within lean, empirical process
control, and within our profession. However, the application of this compared
to traditional, waterfall processes is nothing short of a revolution.
Ken
From:scrumdevelopment@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scrumdevelopment@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of David J Anderson Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006
10:53 PM To:scrumdevelopment@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scrumdevelopment]
Evolution or Revolution?
Ken,
I'm intrigued by your advice that the ugly words of scrum are a major
driver of change. And that maintaining old titles doesn't convey the
change the organization is going through.
This takes me to a conclusion that scrum is a revolution in organizing
knowledge workers rather than an evolutionary change approach. Would
you agree with this conclusion?
And if so, what sort of fall out have you seen in the larger
enterprises adopted scrum on an enterprise-wide basis? Revolutions
tend to have casualties and I'm wondering what you have seen with
scrum revolutions.
Ken, I'm intrigued by your advice that the ugly words of scrum are a major driver of change. And that maintaining old titles doesn't convey the change the...
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