Life before and after scrum

Life Before and After Scrum

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What is agile doing for you: Evaluating the value of Scrum to organizations Dr. Dave Cornelius, Servant Leader

DM, MBA, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSP, SSBB, ITIL v3

THINGS DO NOT CHANGE: WE CHANGE.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU •  “Painful”, “Heroic efforts”, “Death marches”

Life before Scrum

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HENRY DAVID THOREAU •  “We had some gaps in our overall quality process .. Resulted

in long run rates and long cycles of project completion”

Life before Scrum - “Quality Issues”



HENRY DAVID THOREAU

•  “Hard to say how much work is complete, difficult to say how much of a requirement had been implemented, couldn’t control our schedule”

Life before Scrum - “Heroic Efforts”



HENRY DAVID THOREAU •  “Poor work life balance.. didn’t have a life”

Life before Scrum - “Death Marches”



HENRY DAVID THOREAU •  “$2 million invested in just planning, pulled the plug on

the project because it was just going nowhere”

Life before Scrum - “Plan until you Drop”



HENRY DAVID THOREAU

•  “Projects always started out with over ambitious goals and halfway through there were a realization that we were never going to make it”

Life before Scrum - “Chaotic”



HENRY DAVID THOREAU •  “Between 60 and 70 percent of the time was

documenting and not actually producing or developing”

Life before Scrum - “Documenting not Producing or Developing”



HENRY DAVID THOREAU •  “Great deal of miscommunication between the business

and development which leads to rework”

Life before Scrum - “Miscommunication”


Life a'er Scrum Sunshine


Life a'er Scrum

•  “Agile and Scrum is like sunshine”


Life a'er Scrum -‐ “Agile and Scrum is Like Sunshine”

•  “Agile and Scrum is like sunshine”


Life after Scrum - “Employee Satisfaction”

Employee satisfaction goes up, death marches to finish work disappear, minimized risks, alleviates stress inside the development team


Life a'er Scrum -‐ “Be:er Communica=on

• “Transparency between Business and IT people improved”

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Life after Scrum - “More Perceived Value to Market”

•  “Delivered more perceived value to market, increased level of efficiency and gain throughout delivery of the Scrum process”


Life after Scrum - “Proactive Risk Management”

•  “Risks addressed much more proactively rather than after the fact”


“Better market share, better able to meet our annual operating planned targets” ©2014 Dave Cornelius 17

Life after Scrum – “Increased Market Share”

Life after Scrum – “Customers Satisfied”

“Previously yelled at by a customer, customer now satisfied” ©2014 Dave Cornelius 18

Perceived Value of Scrum to OrganizaJons

•  Team empowerment and collaboraJon •  Teams achieved strategic alignment and transparency •  Efficiency and waste eliminaJon


Perceived Value of Scrum to OrganizaJons Cont’d

•  Delivered soOware improved customer experiences •  Customer demands met -‐ finished soOware faster to market


Name: Dr. Dave Cornelius

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About Dr. Dave Cornelius

•  Purpose: – Serve God by serving others –  Inspire continual learning – Add value to individuals by enhancing their

professional growth and development.


References •  Cornelius, D. A. (2014). The value of Scrum to organizaJons: A case study.

Retrieved from ProQuest, hZp://pqdtopen.proquest.com/pubnum/3674139.html


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