The People's Scrum: Agile Ideas for Revolutionary Transformation

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

Agile practice without self-organization is just another management-led process, and will stay rooted in the existing status quo.

what value are we seeking… what story are we telling?

The workflow board, when truly understood, becomes the spiritual home of the team, its church if you like. Team members gather around the board to argue, discuss and innovate, to align themselves with each other, to course-correct, to learn, to celebrate.

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

We keep wanting to pretend what we do is an engineering discipline, but unfortunately, it’s a craft where the skill of the craftsperson dictates success.

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

“Never leave the ending until the end.”

Distributed teams require coordination and management and thus can never be truly self-organizing.