The People's Scrum: Agile Ideas for Revolutionary Transformation

Scrum is a framework for organizational change and personal freedom. It is not a methodology, it is not a process, and it is much more than a tool.

leader as cultivator rather than controller.

There are only two weeks in a two-week sprint. There are only seven people on a seven-person team. Going faster can only mean going crappier.

Empathy and compassion as agents of change need an advocate too.

Since 2005 I have discouraged all teams I work with from measuring and tracking in hours. Using the “one-day task” rule will very quickly uncover impediments and dysfunction. It will also free up your developers to actually focus on the work, and off the numbers. The ultimate goal is to take focus off the tasks altogether, and focus on the actual r

When you adhere to the guidelines of scrum, and understand the underlying principles, a process will emerge that is suited to your own context.

“Never leave the ending until the end.”

leader, and more importantly the right type of leader, will emerge from the wisdom of the team, and should never be imposed ahead of time, or indeed at any time. People outside of the team are not the best positioned to know what the team requires. Well-functioning, self-organized teams will request leaders as needed. I have seen this, and it is go

These three roles constitute the scrum team; their tendency to pull in three different directions—profit, mastery and the greater good—is what generates the healthy conflict and tension required to reach previously unimagined levels of innovation and creativity, and allows scrum teams to deliver true value.

Successful product development comes from happy, impassioned individuals and highly motivated, energized teams.