Scrum Adoption Barriers

Mads Troels Hansen, (@MadsTH), Scrum Day DK 2016

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ME4 Agile Coach, Professional Scrum Trainer

4 Software Developer, Leadership roles

4 Agile Techniques: 20 years

4 Scrum: 10+ years

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My experience when Implementing and using Scrum

! Adoption Barriers✅ What to do

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! Agile wallpaper over existing

structure

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!More Fragile than Agile

Isolated Teams, Many Dependencies

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Grow a network ✅

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Grow a network ✅4 Reduce hierachy

4 Work to stable teams

4 Move responsibility to teams

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! Project mindset4 Measure inside out

4 Upfront defined

4 Task management

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Product Mindset ✅4 Measure outside in

4 User Adoption

4 Less Waste

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!Flaccid Scrum2, The Agile Hangover

4 Neglecting technical practices

4 Poor Software delivery capability

2 Martin Fawler: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/FlaccidScrum.html

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! The Agile HangoverThe “rush to agile” and the impact a few years after…

Sandro Mancuso

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✅Software Craftsmanship

Signed by more than 18.000

people3

3 http://manifesto.softwarecraftsmanship.org/

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! Manager as firefighter

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✅ Network of Co-managers

Enablers - Remove Impediments

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!Certainty mindset

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Empirical mindset ✅4 LEARN early, not about FAIL fast

4 DISCOVER requirements through delivery, not about CHANGING requirements

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! Mechanical Scrum

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Professional Scrum ✅

Transparency Inspection Adaptation

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! Scale ScrumAs a solution

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Scale you product ✅4 Don’t have Scaled Scrum as the goal

4 Remember Conways Law! 5

5 Conways Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law

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Scaled Professional Scrum6 ✅❤ Cross-team dependencies ❤ Integration issues

6 Nexus Guide: https://www.scrum.org/Nexus

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3 key thoughts !4 There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs

4 Embrace the transparency that Agile brings and the pain that transparency brings

4 Agile is like jazz, learn the rules + principles and then get creative.

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When was the last Sprint you delivered a potentially releasable increment? If that’s a

while ago, why? 1

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More information !4 www.ProfessionalScrum.dk/Learn

(Pro Scrum, Scrum Cases, Scrum Bok mv.)

4 www.lean-agile.dk (My company)

Connect or contact

mth@lean-agile.dklinkedin.com/in/MadsTroelsHansenLean-Agile Thinking ApS, 2016