Slides of my eduScrum 2 Scrum session at Agile Coach Camp Denmark 2014 (ACCDK14). Short description: - What Scrum can learn from eduScrum - How to let talent blossom! And utilize the talent of employees.

1. What grown-ups can learn from kids!
eduScrum
2
Scrum

2. The 8 wastes of Lean
T - Transport
I - Inventory
M - Motion
W - Waiting
O - Over production
O - Over processing
D - Defects
S - ………..?

3. The 8 wastes of Lean
T - Transport
I - Inventory
M - Motion
W - Waiting
O - Over production
O - Over processing
D - Defects
S - Skills
2. Under utilizing capabilities
1. Ignorance.
Delegating tasks with
inadequate training

4. Who’s behind this crazy idea?
Arno Delhij
Agile Transition Coach with a strong
focus on people.
Author of the eduScrum guide.
Ward Bergmans
10 years experience in Agile & Scrum
Keen interest in education and the
human brain

5. Agenda
1. Interactive presentation
2. Workshop
3. Debriefing
4. Perfection Game

6. Why?
Eliminate the 8th waste of Lean
“waste of human capital”

7. What?
Let talent blossom!

8. How?
Let Scrum learn from eduScrum!

9. What is eduScrum?
“eduScrum is a framework for coaching students where
the responsibility for the learning process is delegated
from teachers to students.”
eduScrum is based on the Scrum framework and used in
education;
●
collaborative learning / co-creative learning
●
self-ownership
●
continuous improvement

10. What is eduScrum?

11. Workshop: Miracle

12. ● Organization types of Mindzberg
1. Entrepreneurial
2. Machine (bureaucracy)
3. Professional
4. Divisional
5. Innovative (“adhocracy”)
Workshop: Form teams

13. How?
Apply 6 principles*
from eduScrum.
Although sometimes seen in a business environment, these
agile principles are seldomly applied.
These principles can make the difference between
suboptimization and long term success!
*
It is not “The 6 principles of eduScrum”, it are 6 of the principles on which eduScrum is based.

14. 6 principles
where Scrum can benefit from eduScrum
1. Trust 2. Autonomy 3. Happiness
4. Personal
Development
5. Broad skilled 6. Cross-team
collaboration

15. Principles and practices
●
Principle:
– A moral rule or belief that helps you know what is right and
wrong and that influences your actions
– Higher level
– Widely applicable
●
Practice:
– An action; a concrete thing you can do
– Accountable
– Situation dependent

16. Principle #1 Trust
The foundation: Trust

17. ● Teambuilding:
o Discussion about trust
o ...
● Focus on trust. Lead by example.
● Start with trust instead of control.
● Coaching instead of controlling.
● Retrospectives: feedback from every team member.
‘Trust that you will fail. Fail early fail often’
Practices for Trust

18. Principle #2 Autonomy
Make clear goals and let them free (within boundaries)
instead of trying to control them.
Why?
● Intrinsic motivation (Dan Pink)
o Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose
● Space to blossom
● Promote ability to meet challenging situations with ease
● Creativity can flourish

19. Practices for Autonomy
● Set goals and boundaries rather than asking for a certain solution
● Give directions instead of instructions
● Coaching instead of controlling
● Forming teams themselves
● Freedom in balancing effort, learning and reward
● Decide how reward is divided amongst team members
● Team formation:
– Team formation is done by (potential) team members themselves.
– Team members may determine if they want to contribute their
qualities, or that they want to develop new areas

20. Principle #3 Happiness
Why?
● (A certain level of) happiness is required for great
results
● Creativity
● Less sick relief
● …

21. Practices for Happiness
● Definition of Fun
● Happiness metric

22. Principle #4 Personal Development
Create an environment that stimulates personal
development.
● Integral
● Continuous
Why?
● Utilize potential
● Mastery stimulates intrinsic motivation (Dan Pink)
● Be agile - be able to embrace change

23. Practices for Personal Development
● Personal development themes are taken into account
during team formation
● Retrospective: Incl. personal and interpersonal
● Product Owner is coach for Personal Development of
team members
● Regular team rotation

24. Principle #5 Broad skilled
Not everybody needs to become an expert in the subject,
but at least they must have rudimentary skills.
Why?
● Flexible work force
o “Lotto factor”, sick leave, other projects, ...
● Common ground

25. Practices for Broad skilled
● Let the least qualified person do the job.
● Talented team members teach others (improve by
teaching)
● Team members may determine if they want to
contribute their qualities, or that they want to develop
new skills.
● Teams of +/- 4 persons (Reduces group discussion).

26. Principle #6
Cross-team collaboration
Teams have a tendency on focussing inwards rather than
outwards, this is one of the ‘negatives’ of teamwork. Unless we
encourage cross-team collaboration to have access to a far
wider range of possibilities.
Practices:
● The product owner encourages cross-team collaboration
● Stimulate that teams learn from each other’s successes
and failures
● Teams help each other

27. 6 principles
where Scrum can benefit from eduScrum
1. Trust 2. Autonomy 3. Happiness
4. Personal
Development
5. Broad skilled 6. Cross-team
collaboration

28. Questions?
?

29. 1. Write down the first principle and practice you are going
to implement.
2. Write down the actions that need to be done to get
there.
3. Write down risks or potential obstacles.
4. How to mitigate or solve them?
5. Choose the first action you’re gonna do.
Be specific: Write down when, where, who...
Workshop:
Let talent blossom in your organisation

30. ● Share with whole group
Workshop:
Let talent blossom in your organisation

31. Questions?
?

32. Let talent blossom!

33. Please share your results
Arno Delhij Ward Bergmans

34. http://eduscrum.nl/en/
More info about eduScrum