Валентин Будкін: Scrum is not Agile

1. Scrum != Agile

2. Valentine Budkin
• Scrum facilitator
• Interests - BPM, BPMN, DMN, Agile
• Help organizations to transform everyday heroism
into everyday routine
• MOOC junkie
• val.budkin@gmail.com
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• linkedin.com/in/valbudkin

10. Individuals and interactions over
processes and tools

11. Cargo cult

12. Rituals

13. Existing
culture
• People obsessed
with power
• Insufficient skills
• Internal
communication
• Micromanaging

14. Scrum fits into manager schedule

15. Working software over
comprehensive documentation

16. Scrum creates lots of
documentation

17. Scrum is about transparency
• But it has its price

18. Velocity growth
• What do you like – write software or
make the burndown chart look good?
• Developers rarely interested in the
process ownership.

19. You make sure that
the team is not
hyper-productively
making a mess!
“The Land that Scrum Forgot”.
Robert Martin, one of the Agile
Manifesto authors.

22. Customer collaboration over
contract negotiation

23. Product owner

24. Defensive Scrum

25. Where is Team Burndown Chart?

26. Responding to change over
following a plan

27. Estimation

28. Planning is the
kiss of death of
enterpreneurship.
Peter Drucker

29. Work expands so as
to fill the time
available for its
completion.
Cyril Northcote Parkinson

31. Scrum is a framework to HELP us
be Agile
• It works without Agile culture, but not very well
• Having great agile team - you can do great work.
And they can do great scrum.
• Sad but true - meetings overhead gives your
customer transparency but increases costs.
• Don’t forget implementing engineering practices at
the early sprints.

32. Scrum.
Of course.
But may be…

33. Valentine Budkin
• Scrum facilitator
• Interests - BPM, BPMN, DMN, Agile
• Help organizations to transform everyday heroism
into everyday routine
• MOOC junkie
• val.budkin@gmail.com
• facebook.com/val.budkin
• linkedin.com/in/valbudkin