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Richard Banks describes the benefits from having adopted Scrum in the last nine months. Check it out.
The biggest success factors were a willingness from the team to change and a structure with scrum that was focused on that change. The fact that an agile process is built around an understanding that it takes people to make something work and that we're not automatons is a great enabler for improvements. All I did was facilitate the change, lead a little bit by example to get things started and then get out of their way. If it wasn't for my great team then none of this would have happened and I'm indebted to them for the willingness and adaptability that they have shown over the last 12 months.
Compare to Richard's earlier attempt to introduce Scrum incrementally.
In a nutshell it was a disaster.
If you are planning on implementing Scrum you need to do it treat it as an all-or-nothing change. I talked with my CEO about organisational change and the mess that I made and he told me that if I wanted things to change I had to "go to war with the company. State what I wanted to do and take no prisoners in implementing the change." The only real benefit of the anarchic state things were now in was that any change would be an improvement and likely to be received well by the organisation.
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