Scrum around the world - Red Tangerine

Editor's Notes

• #3: Frameworks like Scrum are simply a set of practices that apply a set of values and principles. Organizations are complex adaptive systems, each unique with its own set of challenges, values, objectives and culture. Can you take a framework like Scrum and make it one size fits all?
• #4: Will culture mindset affect how practices used? If so, how much? Is there a universal ‘Scrum culture’? Do underlying cultural traits prevail? How have different cultures adopted Scrum to suit them? Are some cultures naturally more suited to adopting Scrum than others?
• #6: No job titles, no managers, people are empowered to make decisions in their role
• #7: Company standup – no facilitators required
• #8: Sign of Openness – office keys hanging in office for access to all
• #9: Company empowered one team to decide their own pay rises
• #10: They created transparency, then created equality and devised reward system based on team members noting value adding contributions Social aspect – they would take into account team mates personal needs.
• #11: At the University of Buenos Aires Scrum is being used for non software development projects. The University’s kindergarden team works with Scrum to help with the roll out of their new initiatives. The documentation library also has a Scrum team working on an initiative to sign up staff and students to the documentation facilities.
• #12: Developers for good is running event in Buenos Aires where change agents (age 13-24) and experienced developers from the Agile community work together to create digital prototypes that have social impact.
• #13: Hackathon weekends to create digital prototypes that have social impact Sponsored by software development companies in the local Agile community Prototypes are often developed by the sponsors; e.g. App for people with Down Syndrome
• #14: Digital centre set up in a bank. 4 Scrum teams Product teams – can release independently Developers & UX work together; guerrilla testing in Starbucks. Develop what the customer wants, not what the ‘bank’ wants
• #15: Culture change for the bank employees that do not work in IT
• #16: Retail company with 14 stores Change to get all 14 stores to work towards the same goal/ vision Agile transformation – inspired by Lean Change Management Experiments
• #17: Digital transformation to create transparency To help stores to work towards the same goal CRM real time updates of product sales etc at stores Open source
• #18: - By investing in DevOps and build automation, 324 working days saved so far
• #19: Customer satisfaction on the new ways of working In 2014 11% of internal clients recommended using Scrum and Agile, in 2016 this was up to 71% and in 2017 this reached a perfect 100% On a scale from 1-5 team satisfaction regularly scores between a 4 and 5 On a scale from 1-5 customer satisfaction regularly scores between a 4 and 5
• #20: We have learnt many things ourselves, new tools and techniques for change
• #21: We continue our journey in Asia and beyond