Here are a couple of salient points I took from the talk:
- Jeff was a fighter pilot in Vietnam (Sydney 1967) and flew over 100 missions! This along with Jeff's subsequent experience in medical sciences seems to form the backdrop to the pre-scrum thinking. Jeff said he came up with a process that is in a constant state of response to impediments.
- Jeff appears to be a scientist at heart with an evidence based way of getting his point accross. One of the stats he mentioned was that an average 63% of features change on development projects... I'm still digging for the reference for this... will post it shortly.
- When coaching senior management teams Jeff seemd to emphasize the need to "surface impediments". He cited a great example of a Danish company that was level 5 on CMMI with excellent control over processes. This was used as the test bed for determining the productivity differences between SCRUM & Waterfall... needless to say SCRUM kicked ass ;-)
- Read the MIT iRobot story. I loved this story as it really brought home the need to establish the learning process with simple rules... The world is the database... simple rules give rise to sophisticated behaviours!!!
- Jens gave some valued advice for new ScrumMasters:
- Don't get fired,
- Resist the urge to 'help' the team
- Don't use a SCRUM tool at first! (Help the team find it's feet (low tech) before introducing tools.)
- Jeff seems to enjoy applying Root cause analysis for SCRUM issues... Let the data reveal the causes. He gave one of his Polish companies as an example. The company in question had been advised to implement integration testing... this was ignored and later identified as a root cause of the ensuing spate of iteration failures.
- Lack of integration testing was identified as a major impediment to getting to DONE!
Hope you enjoyed this installment... If you attended the event too please feel free to add your own take on the talk!
This event was arranged by Edwin Dando from Clarus Consulting in Christchurch. A real win for the New Zealand Agile community I'd say!!
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