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Friday, February 20, 2009
Scrum Webinar Series - Scrum But
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Scrum's use is spreading in product companies and engineering organizations. These organizations hope that Scrum will:
Making them more productive
Providing more predictability
Increasing risk management capabilities
Increasing the value of products in the marketplace and systems in the organization
Increasing quality
Improving the morale and pleasure of the developers, product managers, customers and stakeholders
However, when they use Scrum, they run into ScrumBut's. ScrumButs are reasons why they can't take full advantage of Scrum to solve the problems and realize the benefits.
A ScrumBut has a particular syntax: (ScrumBut) (Reason)(Workaround)
An example ScrumBut is (The Daily Scrum meetings are too much overhead) (because the team members don't need to meet so often) (so we only have them once a week, unless we need them more often).
Ken Schwaber
Ken Schwaber is one of the signatories to the Agile Manifesto, founder of the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance, and co-developer of the Scrum process with Jeff Sutherland. He has been in software development for over 30 years, in positions from bottlewasher to cook. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts with his wife, Christina, and cat.
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