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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- 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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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.