I was asked to do a presentation at a conference for people entering into an agile way of working and present on the true meaning of scrum. My hope was to great a presentation that focused more on the emotions of what if feels like to do scrum, rather than emphasise the practices again

1. Scrum – What’s it
all about
• Martin Kearns
• 16th Mar 2015

3. Having a New Set of Practices
Although we can’t will collective wisdom to arise in
teams, we can make preparations that encourage it
to emerge.

4. By moving away from command
and control to one of “autonomy to
outcome” creates a self-
deterministic system.
It is the capability to develop new
knowledge that enables a team to
continuously recreate it’s structure
/ processes and redefine role /
function.
Focus on the social system

5. We Learn about the nature of project elements and objectives and
the means of achieving them during the process of experiment and
discovery
Having a New Set of Practices

6. Concept ualizat ionRefl ect ion
I mmersion I mplementat ion

7. Concept ualizat ionRefl ect ion
I mmersion I mplementat ion

8. Create guiding values to outcome
Creating a coherent sense of project identity creates an environment
for people to contribute in creative and diverse ways.
People use their shared sense of identity to maximise their unique
contribution to project success
Task 1 Task 2
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Handover
Output Input
We focus on
the outcome
Collective
Responsibility
Waste

9. The Values

10. Learn the
unknown
Scrum focuses on the fact that a complex work tends to be
imprecisely defined with many project elements that are not
obvious in how they relate to each other or the objective.
Focus

11. A collaborative mindset where people and business are
free to share without the fear of retribution will
encourage new ways of thinking and new ways to draw
knowledge and/or insight.
Openness

12. Be prepared to make personal sacrifices in service of
teachings and people you value.
Courage also mean taking the side of truth in all that matters
rather than seeking the convenient lie
Courage

13. The human capacity to make meaning together
depends on a suspension of any one individual or
subgroup’s having always to be in the right.Respect

14. Commit to a team by allowing dialogue to flow freely.
Suspend your judgment and listen to opinion, see the
true meaning. If everyone can see common meaning
together they can participate.
Commitment

15. Establish project principles
Compliance
Externalisation
Internalisation
Conformance
Explicit Practices
Education
Collectively responsible
Self determined
Behavioral norm
Create an agreed set of fundamental truths around a project that
are the foundations for behavior and decision making

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Values Principles Practices Methods
• New information will be identified and valued when change is seen as
a necessity to preservation and/or creativity.
• Maintain a higher sense of purpose within the team
• People must be empowered to make their own decision as to “How”
they can achieve a goal
• A team must consist of all the skills needed to achieve the “Definition
of Done”
• Team takes collective responsibility for their processes and
outcomes
My Scrum Principles

17. New Information
To succeed, enable a strategy to sync with new information
that is being amplified in your environment and then focus
on ways to adapt quickly.

18. Sense of Purpose
From uncertainty, inquiry and dialogue comes new
meaning, learning and unanticipated ways to move
towards a shared outcome.

19. Mechanistic
Independence
Push
Pull
Interdependence
Holistic
We can recover wholeness in our organisations and recapture our sense of
connection between actions. To achieve such a desire requires a very different
set of rules to the ones we currently conform to.
Empowering self-organisation

20. Value a cross functional team
As soon as designate someone as the other we reinforce our own
sense of and no longer feel it necessary to play by the rules.

21. Collective
Responsibility
The source of power lies in the humon impulses
that move towards wholeness. To make different
choices, Scrum brings people together via
practices and allow our new behaviours to be the
guide to new learning.

22. Value of scrum The source of power lies in the humon intuition
that move towards a more holistic world.

23. See the space
between things
Learn to recognise the connections that were
always there but have remained invisible to the
processes and governances of your status quo.