Why Is Scrum So Hard?

Jens Østergaard, a fully qualified Certified Scrum Master Trainer, gives an introduction to Scrum and talks about why is Scrum so hard.
This talk was part of the San Francisco Agile User Group meetup, and it was hosted and organized by Marakana Inc.

The details of this talk can be found at:
http://www.sfagile.org/calendar/11086...

The slides that Jens used for this talk are available at:
http://files.meetup.com/936565/200908...

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[ololh4xx]

4:50 to skip the useless, personal history and riffraff

[CaptainMacNasty]

07:50 to skip the same old criticisms of waterfall as just a big failed methodology.

(...while, as always, ignoring all the tremendously successful systems that were developed using the waterfall methodology.)

:)

[Mark Sawczuk]

Seems like there's a dichotomy between Waterfall and Agile, wherein better results may be somewhere in the middle. Agile focuses on the tactical battles and adapt to inevitable unknowns, but lacks strategic decision making and long term tradeoffs or the critical role verification plays in development. Waterfall approaches try to address a-priori investment risk for the company but lack the ability to pivot with uncertainty. Pros/cons to each, and not every projected suited to one method.

[MomoTheBellyDancer]

I am getting sick and tired of that lame excuse.

[Stu Whisson]

If it didn't work then you are not implementing it correctly.

[MomoTheBellyDancer]

Scrum isn't hard. It just doesn't work. After more than a dozen of failed Scrum projects, I have no choice but to come to that conclusion.

[Mustafa Tulu]

32:30 It takes more discipline to be agile. Otherwise you are just told what to do, and you do it expecting that will be enough. When on agile, you need to spend much more energy to understand and to commit to what really matters.

[Andrew Dunmore]

test

[Chirag Pandit]

<3 Thanks :)

[Avinash Shivani]

Agree with the speaker that introducing scrum in an organization is difficult as it is seen as challenging the existing culture and beliefs.

[ololh4xx]

indeed, my good sir.