Thursday, 21 May 2015

Scrum in real life


Lately I’ve been asked to explain Scrum in less than 5 mins to regular folks, without framework terms.

Here is how I did it
  • Have a long term vision or goal of what do you want to achieve (e.g. get fit and improve your health)
  • Create a to do list with actions producing results, contributing to the main goal (e.g. run every day for 10 mins, go to gym 3 times a week, sell the car and walk more)
  • Have somebody (could be you) prioritise your list – focus on short-term benefits
  • Set a timebox to challenge yourself with some of the actions (e.g. day, week, two weeks)
  • Commit to actions you assume can do in the timebox
  • Check how you are doing every day for a couple of minutes
  • In the end of the timebox summarise and celebrate your successful actions
  • Review and prepare the actions for the next timebox
  • Repeat
--
Sounds simple? Then why you can’t find many folks doing this naturally?

Some of the reasons
  • People usually aim big. This is the worst mistake. Nobody wants to chase 100$ tomorrow but almost everybody will chase 1 000 000$ for many years
  • Folks get easily demotivated just doing small stuff. Celebrate and value every success – no matter how small it is
  • It is difficult to prioritise. Even more if you are just long-term thinker
  • Focus loss or vision change
  • Iterations are not comfortable… in fact they are usually stressful
  • Folks not comfortable taking full responsibility and leading (even their own life/business)
  • People not comfortable with all the transparency of their progress (sometimes it’s simply not looking good)

No comments:

Post a Comment