John Scumniotales , the co-creator of Scrum and the first Scrum Master (his words) did a really cool webinar on why agile environments needs more than Scrum. Among other things, he lays out four key elements that are part of securing a successful agile environment, none of which are really top of the list in a pure scrum philosophy although not in any way antithetical to scrum, just a layer on top of it.):
- Cross-functional teams that include the customer (or their proxy), development, test, documentation and anyone else required to create “the whole product”;
- Incremental delivery of production quality capabilities at regular intervals;
- Test-driven development that builds quality in from the beginning;
- Automated and unattended build, test and reporting and I maniacal focus on build quality.
I particularly like the test driven development stuff. You can check out the whole webinar here.
- Michael Grollman
Tags: John Scumniotales, Scrum
