Tips To Starting Scrum On Your Team In Your Organization

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Here are a few professional tips to remember when starting Scrum:

• Scrum is not an acronym for anything and Scrum is not a “Silver Bullet“.

• While the word Scrum comes from the sport Rugby, there is nothing violent in the real world​ of implementing Scrum on your projects.

• There is a real world difference between the words “Scrum” and “Agile.” Don’t worry about that right now.

• Scrum is not about technology or agile tool vendors trying to make you Agile.

• Do not try “Scaling Scrum at the Enterprise level” if you cannot implement Scrum with one team yet.

• Scrum sounds like a pretty funny word, huh?

• Scrum is all about communication between people. And. It starts with some difficult conversations about prioritization.

• You — or your boss and organization — cannot try “Managing Scrum.”

Starting Scrum: How to Start

• Review the AgileManifesto. This is where it all began.

• View the Interactive Scrum Guide.

• Listen to the the Scrum Guide Audio Book.

• Watch the Scrum Guide YouTube Playlist.

• KISS Scrum (Keep it Simple Stupid).

• Read the fictional story of someone Considering Scrum.

• Re-read “The New New Product Development Game” (1986, Harvard Business Review).

• Review your free Implementing Scrum Resources.

• See the riveting (smile) story: Origin of the Scrum Chicken and Pig Cartoons.

• Check out the Scrum Fundamentals.

• Investigate your Certified Scrum Training options.

• Learn about your options to hire Michael Vizdos for a Consulting Engagement today.

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