• Encourages change not stasis
• organized around the value stream
• No required practices
• Attends to culture
• Attends to systems thinking

An approach that starts with a set of practices is fine – as long as you start moving off of those practices quickly.

The idea that you have to start with a set of practices and learn how to apply them before doing something else is both risky and demeaning. How do you know they are they right set of practices? And why can’t whoever is teaching you the practices teach you how to tell when a practice is good or not?

Starting with a set of practices is fine, but

 

The idea that you have to start with a set of practices &learn how to apply them B4 doing something else is both risky &emeaning. How do you know they’re the right set of practices? &why doesn’t whoever”s teaching the practices teach how to tell when a practice is good or not?

The root cause of ScrumBut may not be lack of motivation or people abandoning practices before they learn them but the lack of a model that explains how to improve practices. This is a weakness of the approach, not the practitioner.