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Soft factors - Prerequisites of Scrum
The document discusses soft factors, or human-oriented factors like trust and communication, and why they are important for applying the Scrum framework. It provides an overview of soft factors and identifies trust, communication, and motivation as key examples. The document emphasizes that over 50% of the presenter's time is spent on soft factors and that true success with Scrum comes from understanding its values like commitment, openness, and principles like communication and continuous improvement. It provides some basic tips around soft factors and has a discussion section at the end.
Soft factors - Prerequisites of Scrum
- 1. Fredi Schmidli -Managing Partner, Co-Founder swiss IT bridge gmbh www.swissITbridge.ch Soft factors - a decisive prerequisite for applying Scrum
- 2. Agenda About usYour interest? What are Soft Factors? Your key Soft Factors? Why focusing on Soft Factors? Basic tipps Discussion
- 3. 1. About usswiss IT bridge gmbh Managing Partner, Co-Founder Background: Economist Why Scrum? Lean Agile Scrum community in CH/VN
- 4. 2. Your interest?http://www.flickr.com/photos/hectoralejandro/4401992531/
- 5. 3. What areSoft Factors? 1. Soft Factors or human-oriented factors Trust Communication Motivation etc. 2. Hard Factors or technical factors CPU speed Loading time for website etc.
- 6. 4. Your keySoft Factor? 3' exercise with your neighbour: 1. Your most important Soft Factor? 2. Which you want to improve yourself? 3. Which you want somebody else to improve?
- 7. 5. Why focusingon Soft Factors? I spend more than 50% of my time with Soft Factors.... "True success with the Scrum framework comes from teams and organizations who understand the values and the principles that form the foundation of all agile processes" http://www.scrumalliance.org/pages/what_is_scrum Values , e.g.: Commitment (Time boxed sprint) Openness (Retrospective) Principles , e.g.: Communicate (Daily Scrum) Learn and improve (Retrospective) http://www.implementingscrum.com/2008/03/25/scrum-values-learn-them-live-them/ http://www.scrumalliance.org/articles/5
- 8. 6. Basic tippsGeneral: Cool head, warm heart and working hands Find out the true reason e.g. for Trust: Situation Why? Consequence? Conclusion: Important, but a challange to apply them Action? Education/Training and Investment in firms
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Editor's Notes
- #3 Ask participants at the end of the agenda: 1. First time visitor? 2. No Scrum exp 3. some elements 4. expert
- #4 We provide SW services with dedicated teams, who work exclusively for customers as prolonged workbench My partner Thomas and I founded SIB 2006. As one part of the bridge he lives in Saigon and guarantees with his European crew the quality of our work from our SW-Center and at the Swiss part of the bridge I am the ambassador of our clients and not an IT guy. Programmed a bit Basic at Uni. As Head of Admin in factory in restructuring I realised that when implementing SAP R3. Lean Production at the beginning of the 90ies Agile Philosophy and Scrum improve quality, productivity and happiness of developers
- #5 Who is here: 1. developer, tester, architect, .. 2. Scrum Master, PO, PM, etc. 3. Manager with budget? Your interest? I prepared some thoughts. However, what are your questions you want to have answered when you go home?
- #8 1. Notes: How much time do you spend?
- #9 1. - do not get upset - empathy for people, generosity - not only talk (overall) 2. because past experiences distort our perception 3.1 all want it, not all have it, not all give it, and less if bad experience 3.2 e.g. as kids 80'000 blames vs. 20'000 praises 3.3 e.g. 7 praises outweigh 1 blame
- #10 auch Christoph danken: Bsp. für SF (auch wenn er nicht da ist. Signalling Effekt)