Agile Software Development with Scrum

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Agile is a set of processes for software development, that uses iterative, incremental techniques and relies on self organising, self managing, cross functional teams. It heavily relies on people – it’s less about process and more about what people can do. You can find parallels to Agile in Lean Manufacturing - Agile is to Lean Manufacturing as Traditional Software Development is to Traditional Manufacturing.

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Why should I be thinking about adopting Scrum?
If you develop software and are unhappy with the turnover of staff, if you are unhappy with the quality of software being built, if your customers are unhappy with the way you’re building software and are starting to send the work off shore to save money or getting someone else to build it, if you are unhappy with the productivity of your software developers, if your developers do not like coming to work in the morning – you should consider adopting Scrum. However adopting Scrum is a very difficult activity. So to the degree that you have been experienced problems with any of the items mentioned before; the pain of those must be greater than the pain of adopting Scrum.
How will Scrum affect my organisation?
Scrum will totally change your organisation. Organisations are organised around the processes they use. The traditional method is based around people telling other people what to do – this is a command and control structure and about the belief that the future is predictable. Scrum is based around the idea that people can manage themselves and that the future is unpredictable and the best we can do is to make the most intelligent adaptations to it that are possible to deliver something of value. Shifting the way an organisation works based on these different assumptions is massive and requires a significant change process. This is the difficulty of implementing Scrum.

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