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Scrum - Change Takes Commitment

Organizations want to "do Scrum" yet many lack the courage to truly change.

If you're not leveraging dedicated cross-functional teams, if you're still managing in a command-and-control style, if you're still choosing to throw quality over the fence, you're not doing Scrum.

Scrum is easy on paper, yet is very difficult to implement. It's because it forces us to think entirely differently about how we're accustomed to building products. Silos of workers just aren't as effective. Our traditional tools don't support going to Scrum, either. Heck, some of your managers probably don't want to suck it up and just change because you're trying to change THEIR legacies. It's DIFFICULT.

If you aren't taking a serious look at your Scrum implementation and thinking of it as organizational change management, you must begin thinking that way immediately. That's what it is. Scrum is happening everywhere and yet many people seem to underestimate what a truly big change it is. It takes commitment. So commit.

Posted on Friday, June 15, 2007 at 08:42PM by Registered CommenterStacia | CommentsPost a Comment

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