What if Scrum had no Rules?

What if Scrum had no rules?

Peter StevensAgile Tour BangaloreNovember 8, 2014

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Imagine! It’s 1993 and you are Jeff Sutherland…

How do you identify successful patterns?

Outliers

We can also use our own experience to identify outliers!

I believe agreements are stronger than rules

I believe agreements are stronger than rules

Let’s explore great projects together

1. Tell & listen to stories of great projects 2. Identify those projects most worthy emulation3. Identify the patterns in those projects

Could we agree to do something similar?

Can we agree to respect the timebox?

Share your best experience…

• Groups of 6

• Timebox 1:30 / person = 9 minutes total!

Remember that face!

and Regroup!

Share your best experience…

• Groups of 6

• Timebox 1:30 / person = 9 minutes total!

Remember that face!

Find the project you’d most like to emulate!

Let’s hear the best projects!

• The 3 most popular projects

• 1:30 / per person

How many of you…

Told the story

of the project you are working on today?

Could you…?

Agree with your colleagues

to make this project your best project?

What would you be agreeing to?

What are the characteristics of these great projects?

• How would you describe the purpose of the project?

• How many people were involved?

• What skills did they have?

• How often did they produce something that worked?

• What were the characteristics of the leadership?

• How did people work together?

• How would you describe the motivation of the people involved?

• What factors enabled the motivation?

• What was the relationship to the beneficiaries of your work (customers)?

Could you agree with your colleagues…

To implement these patterns?

I believe

If you implement these patterns

you get something that looks a lot like Scrum

What are the patterns that Scrum implements?

Deliver regularly something that works

Inspect and adapt at regular intervals

A single voice speaks for the customer / user / stakeholders

A small, interdisciplinary team solves the problem

Great performance comes from continuous improvement

Management helpsbut stays out of the way

What if…?

We consider Scrum

as collection of working agreements?

Vote!

• Agreements are more powerful than rules! • Vote to elevate the status of agreements in

the Scrum Guide

• http://tinyurl.com/ScrumAgreements

“Let’s make this project your best project!”

• Peter Stevens– scrum-breakfast.com– saat-network.ch

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