The Scrum Culture: Introducing Agile Methods in Organizations

✍ Scribed by Dominik Maximini (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 315
• Series: Management for Professionals
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a guide for managers, Scrum Masters and agile coaches who are interested in agile organizational methods and who are planning to introduce Scrum at their own company. Scrum is not only a product development framework but can also be used to structure activities for agile and lean organizational development.

Divided into five major parts, the book first introduces and defines the Scrum Culture. It explains its relevance, highlights a number of pain points typical for first encounters with Scrum, and embeds it in an introduction to organizational change. This is complemented with many real-life examples that help to apply the concepts to readers’ own specific contexts. The second part describes the principles of introducing Scrum in detail, while the third part embarks on the practical application of these principles, drawing on a wealth of experience gathered in many successful introduction projects. Part four focuses on a detailed case study of a Scrum transformation before part five provides, in closing, a number of appendices offering extensive information on Scrum and its principles.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Why a Scrum Culture Is Important....Pages 3-7
Organizational Culture Models....Pages 9-25
Cultural Characteristics of Scrum....Pages 27-41
Primary Research: The Nature of Scrum Survey....Pages 43-53
Conclusions....Pages 55-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Different Shapes of Scrum in the Enterprise....Pages 73-81
Different Starting Points....Pages 83-86
Considerations for Scrum Introductions....Pages 87-92
Scrum Introduction Overview....Pages 93-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Creating a Sense of Urgency....Pages 99-105
The Guiding Coalition....Pages 107-113
Vision and Strategy....Pages 115-118
Communicating the Change Vision....Pages 119-121
Empower Your Employees on a Broad Basis....Pages 123-133
Generate Quick Wins....Pages 135-161
Consolidate Gains and Initiate Further Change....Pages 163-166
Anchor New Approaches into the Corporate Culture....Pages 167-171
Introducing Scrum into Large Teams....Pages 173-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Introducing Scrum....Pages 183-226
Get Started!....Pages 227-227
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Appendix 1: Why John Kotter’s Model Was Chosen....Pages 231-242
Appendix 2: Research Details....Pages 243-288
Appendix 3: A Brief Scrum Overview....Pages 289-303
Appendix 4: Methods....Pages 305-308
Back Matter....Pages 309-315

✦ Subjects

Business Strategy/Leadership; Computing Milieux; Organization/Planning; Software Engineering