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The Secret History of Agile Innovation
- rawgabbit 4y agoJeff Sutherland the cofounder of SCRUM gives the secret history of SCRUM's origins. For many, Agile==Scrum. Article excerpts: (a) Scrum arose from a paper by two Japanese professors. In 1993, the first Scrum team read “The New New Product Development Game” in the Harvard Business Review. The authors, Takeuchi and Nonaka, were visiting professors at Harvard when they published this paper in 1986. (b) The Japanese professors described how agile companies looked like rugby teams. companies were using what Takeuchi and Nonaka called a “rugby” approach, “where a team tries to go the whole distance as a unit, passing the ball back and forth.” (c) In 2001, the Agile Manifesto was created with Jeff Sutherland in attendance. In 2001, 17 developers who called themselves “organizational anarchists” met in Snowbird, Utah, to share their ideas. (d) Meanwhile, other Americans were studying Toyota and called it "lean manufacturing" which further influenced Agile. in the late 1980s and early 1990s, researchers from MIT had begun to study Japanese manufacturing systems, especially the Toyota production system. They coined the term “lean” and eventually more agile practitioners came to accept lean, kanban, and their hybrids (such as scrumban and lean scrum) as legitimate applications of agile values and principles.