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Why Scrum

Outline

Successful companies (1m)

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Concepts

The most successful companies use Agile and Scrum frameworks to quickly adapt to the world around them.

Scrum origin story (5m)

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Concepts

  • Scrum isn't a flash in the pan. The first Scrum project happened in 1980 with the rollout of an ATM system.
  • Traditional projects were most likely to fail
  • Create an intrapreneurial company and give it a radically different operating system.

Scrum military stories (20m)

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Concepts

Loose Deuce and Westpoint
  • Fast feedback
  • Make all work visible
  • Everyone can give feedback
Napolean's Army
  • 2 Rules to manage an army (shoot when you see the enemy, move in the direction of the enemy)
  • Simple rules can result in complex behavior
Cancer Research
  • Small changes can lead to big outcomes
Short-sword/Long-sword
  • Share about Musashi's two-sword fighting style
  • Use the right tool for the job
  • Use the same techniques so its easier to know how to use the tools
John Boyd and the OODA Loop
  • Share the history of the OODA Loop (Red book has a good summary)
  • The company that can Observe/Orient/Decide/Act the fastest will be the most likely to survive a rapidly changing world

Make all teams green (5m)

  • The Standish group

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  • Information comes from the Standish Group's chaos report...hundreds of thousands of projects over multiple decades.
  • Most fail...Agile allows you to beat the odds and Scrum is the most understood Agile framework.

Notes from the past