Expressions of Scrum practitioners during a research interview. Included are CTO, Coaches, Trainers, Scrum Masters, Scrum team, & others.

1. Life Before and
After Scrum
Pecha-Kucha
What is agile doing for you: Evaluating the value of Scrum to organizations
Dr. Dave Cornelius, Servant Leader
DM, MBA, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSP, SSBB, ITIL v3

2. Life before Scrum
THINGS DO NOT CHANGE: WE CHANGE.
• “Painful”, “Heroic efforts”, “Death marches”
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
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3. Life before Scrum - “Quality Issues”
THINGS DO NOT CHANGE: WE CHANGE.
• “We had some gaps in our overall quality process .. Resulted
in long run rates and HENRY long DAVID cycles THOREAU
of project completion”
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4. Life before Scrum - “Heroic Efforts”
THINGS DO NOT CHANGE: WE CHANGE.
• “Hard to say how much work is complete, difficult to say how
much of a requirement had been implemented, couldn’t
control our schedule”
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
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5. Life before Scrum - “Death Marches”
THINGS DO NOT CHANGE: WE CHANGE.
• “Poor work life balance.. didn’t have a life”
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
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6. Life before Scrum - “Plan until you Drop”
THINGS DO NOT CHANGE: WE CHANGE.
• “$2 million invested in just planning, pulled the plug on
the project because HENRY it DAVID was THOREAU
just going nowhere”
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7. Life before Scrum - “Chaotic”
THINGS DO NOT CHANGE: WE CHANGE.
• “Projects always started out with over ambitious goals and
halfway through there were a realization that we were never
going to make it”
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
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8. Life before Scrum - “Documenting not
Producing or Developing”
THINGS DO NOT CHANGE: WE CHANGE.
• “Between 60 and 70 percent of the time was
documenting and HENRY not DAVID actually THOREAU
producing or developing”
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9. Life before Scrum - “Miscommunication”
THINGS DO NOT CHANGE: WE CHANGE.
• “Great deal of miscommunication between the business
and development HENRY which DAVID leads THOREAU
to rework”
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10. Life a'er
Scrum
Sunshine
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Cornelius
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11. Life a'er Scrum
• “Agile
and
Scrum
is
like
sunshine”
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Cornelius
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12. Life a'er Scrum -­‐ “Agile and Scrum is Like
Sunshine”
• “Agile
and
Scrum
is
like
sunshine”
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Cornelius
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13. Life after Scrum - “Employee
Satisfaction”
Employee satisfaction goes up, death marches to finish work
disappear, minimized risks, alleviates stress inside the
development team
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14. Life a'er Scrum -­‐ “Be:er Communica=on
• “Transparency
between
Business
and
IT
people
improved”
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15. Life after Scrum - “More Perceived
Value to Market”
• “Delivered more perceived value to market, increased
level of efficiency and gain throughout delivery of the
Scrum process”
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16. Life after Scrum - “Proactive Risk
Management”
• “Risks addressed much more proactively rather
than after the fact”
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17. Life after Scrum – “Increased Market
Share”
“Better market share, better able to meet our annual
operating planned targets”
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18. Life after Scrum – “Customers
Satisfied”
“Previously yelled at by a customer,
customer now satisfied”
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19. Perceived
Value
of
Scrum
to
OrganizaJons
• Team
empowerment
and
collaboraJon
• Teams
achieved
strategic
alignment
and
transparency
• Efficiency
and
waste
eliminaJon
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Cornelius
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20. Perceived
Value
of
Scrum
to
OrganizaJons
Cont’d
• Delivered
soOware
improved
customer
experiences
• Customer
demands
met
-­‐
finished
soOware
faster
to
market
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Cornelius
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21. Contact Information
Name: Dr. Dave Cornelius
E-mail: ME@Dave-Cornelius.COM
Other Contact Info:
• Web: www.Dave-Cornelius.com
• Twitter: @DrCorneliusInfo
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/daveauck/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrDaveCornelius
• Google+: google.com/+DaveCorneliusDrOrgLead
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Cornelius
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22. About Dr. Dave Cornelius
• Purpose:
– Serve God by serving others
– Inspire continual learning
– Add value to individuals by enhancing their
professional growth and development.
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Cornelius
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23. References
• Cornelius,
D.
A.
(2014).
The
value
of
Scrum
to
organizaJons:
A
case
study.
Retrieved
from
ProQuest,
hZp://pqdtopen.proquest.com/pubnum/3674139.html
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