Scrum != Agile
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
Individuals	and	interactions over	
processes	and	tools
Cargo	cult
Rituals
Existing	
culture
• People	obsessed	
with	power
• Insufficient	skills
• Internal	
communication
• Micromanaging
Scrum	fits	into	manager	schedule
Working	software over	
comprehensive	documentation
Scrum	creates	lots	of	
documentation
Scrum	is	about	transparency
• But	it	has	its	price
Velocity	growth
• What	do	you	like	– write	software	or	
make	the	burndown	chart	look	good?
• Developers	rarely	interested	in	the	
process	ownership.
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.
Customer	collaboration over	
contract	negotiation
Product	owner
Defensive	Scrum
Where	is	Team	Burndown	Chart?
Responding	to	change over	
following	a	plan
Estimation
Planning	is	the	
kiss	of	death	of	
enterpreneurship.
Peter	Drucker
Work	expands	so	as	
to	fill	the	time	
available	for	its	
completion.
Cyril	Northcote	Parkinson
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.
Scrum.
Of	course.
But	may	be…
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

Scrum is not Agile