Scrum Day DK 2016 - Scrum Adoption Barriers

Scrum Adoption Barriers

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

Lean-Agile Thinking ApS, 2016

ME4 Agile Coach, Professional Scrum Trainer

4 Software Developer, Leadership roles

4 Agile Techniques: 20 years

4 Scrum: 10+ years


My experience when Implementing and using Scrum

! Adoption Barriers✅ What to do


! Agile wallpaper over existing

structure


!More Fragile than Agile

Isolated Teams, Many Dependencies


Grow a network ✅

Dual operating system: J. KotterLean-Agile Thinking ApS, 2016

Grow a network ✅4 Reduce hierachy

4 Work to stable teams

4 Move responsibility to teams


! Project mindset4 Measure inside out

4 Upfront defined

4 Task management


Product Mindset ✅4 Measure outside in

4 User Adoption

4 Less Waste


!Flaccid Scrum2, The Agile Hangover

4 Neglecting technical practices

4 Poor Software delivery capability

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


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

Sandro Mancuso


✅Software Craftsmanship

Signed by more than 18.000

people3

3 http://manifesto.softwarecraftsmanship.org/


! Manager as firefighter


✅ Network of Co-managers

Enablers - Remove Impediments


!Certainty mindset


Empirical mindset ✅4 LEARN early, not about FAIL fast

4 DISCOVER requirements through delivery, not about CHANGING requirements


! Mechanical Scrum


Professional Scrum ✅

Transparency Inspection Adaptation


! Scale ScrumAs a solution


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


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

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


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.


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

while ago, why? 1

Ken SchwaberLean-Agile Thinking ApS, 2016

More information !4 www.ProfessionalScrum.dk/Learn

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

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

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[email protected]/in/MadsTroelsHansenLean-Agile Thinking ApS, 2016

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