Scrum provides a framework for growing good agile practices. It focuses on principles like purpose, alignment, focus, release rhythm, and allowing teams to find their own cadence. This creates an environment for trust, autonomy, engagement, self-organization, collaboration, and a culture that embraces risk. Scrum distinguishes the destination from the journey and allows teams to prioritize, minimize work in progress, enter a state of flow, complete work, and build-deliver-learn repeatedly.

1. The Why of Scrum
Tobias Mayer
businesscraftsmanship.com
March 2013

2. 1st Question:
Why
do
Agile?

3. to quickly and frequently
deliver real working software to
real users...
In a Nutshell...
in order to learn
how to improve
the product

4. 2nd Question:
Why
use
Scrum?

5. Scrum provides a framework for
growing good practices

6. Done!

7. Simple Scrum
Transformation of idea to product

8. What happens when we
focus on Process?

9. Process tells us HOW
It doesn’t tell us WHY
HOW
seeks compliance
WHY
offers engagement

10. Look Again

11. Purpose
Alignment
Focus
Release
Rhythm
An Abstract Class
for Agile process

12. Purpose
WHERE TO and WHY

13. Ensure everyone is on the
same journey
Alignment
Alignment != Agreement

14. “Maximize the amount of work not done”
Kent Beck
Focus
“Transform scarcity into abundance”
Jeff Sutherland

15. Release
Let go of control
Lead by vision and goals
Inspire, rather than direct

16. Rhythm
Align with the heartbeat of the organization
And... allow teams to find their own cadence

17. These principles create fertile
ground for emergent process

18. How does Scrum implement
this abstraction?

19. Purpose allows us to...
Create Compelling Vision
Set Goals — self, team, group, org.
Reflect and Reset
The mightier your purpose,
the more likely you are to
succeed. It will give you a
strong foundation when the
winds of change shift.
—Bud Bilanich

20. Alignment + Rhythm gives us...
Empirical Process

21. Release
creates the environment for...
• Trust
• Autonomy
• Engagement
• Self-organization
• Collaboration
• A risk-embracing culture

22. Purpose + Release gives us...
The essential Why/How distinction
The Destination The Journey

23. A desire for Alignment leads us to transparency
Workflow boards are tools for continual improvement

24. ...and receive frequent endorphin rushes
Prioritize
Minimize W.I.P
Enter into Flow
Complete Things
and Focus offers us the ability to...

25. Remember
Build—Deliver—Learn
Repeat
The Essence of
Agility

26. Scrum
is your pathway
and the journey is full of surprises

27. Thank You
@tobiasmayer
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tobias@businesscraftsmanship.com