Close to 100 people showed up to the scrum club event sponsored by rallydev tonight, including a bunch of CSTs/CSCs. Feed them, and they will come (thank you Amanda, Mine and Kris from rallydev for the fantastic organization).
The theme of the evening was “Boostrapping and agile team”.
George Schlitz, coach from BigVisible Solutions, talked about the need to put agile projects in the context of the organization – defining clear stakeholders roles, involvement and communication.
Scott Downey, coach at myspace, presented reasons for scrum implementations ot fail and provided the base for what he calls “the shock therapy” – the scrum coach sets the one by deciding on iteration length, usage of story points, meeting agendas etc… until the team earns the right to change these initial decisions.
I challenged everyone with the idea that initiating a transformation to agile without executive engagement, strong engineers and experienced agile coaches is very likely a waste of effort, i.e. not going to materially change the success of the business.
A video should show up sometime soon.
