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RE: [scrumdevelopment] Evolution or Revolution?

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.

David



Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:36 pm

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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...
David J Anderson
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Oct 31, 2006
3:56 am

Hello, David. On Monday, October 30, 2006, at 10:52:36 PM, you ... Evolution tends to have casualties as well -- lots of them. In particular, I've seen...
Ron Jeffries
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Oct 31, 2006
4:11 am

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...
Ken Schwaber
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Oct 31, 2006
1:38 pm

Ken, Can you make a change to scrum gradually, incrementally, or is an out-with-the-old, in-with-the-new type transformation? What has been the reaction of...
David J Anderson
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Oct 31, 2006
8:42 pm

Lots of things, like Product Management, Project Management, functional management, compensation, removal of enterprise impediments, etc. have to be done. We...
Ken Schwaber
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Oct 31, 2006
9:03 pm

Where I was contracting before I managed to get the CIO to back trialing agile (scrum) on one of their mid size projects, it took a lot of work to get buy-in I...
Graeme Matthew
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Nov 1, 2006
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