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Scrum requires some premises that many businesses have problems adapting to if they've had a micro managed process before. Scrum is, for better or worse, an al
by hvidgaard 6y ago
Scrum requires some premises that many businesses have problems adapting to if they've had a micro managed process before.
Scrum is, for better or worse, an all or nothing if it is to reach its full potential. Once you have "real" Scrum, you can start adapting the overall process through retrospective. But if you start your scrum adventure with "Scrum but..." then it's not going to deliver of the promises.
- WJW 6y agoIt is not just micromanagement, it is also the rest of the business culture. Ego-less development and placing the team over the individual can great for productivity. These productivity gains accrue to the profit of the wider company and _might_ partially flow back to the team, possibly as a bonus or possibly as promotions. However, effacing yourself for the team is unlikely to result in the kind of visibility needed for career progression and with software salaries being what they are that can mean a difference of hundreds of thousands in income over the years. In a way, scrum and its team-based mechanics form a kind of prisoners dilemma where the first team member to claim credit will gain much more of the value generated than their peers. These incentives need to be taken into account in any framework based on teams cooperating, because they have the potential to rapidly poison any team where people are jockeying for promotion.