{"id":1114,"date":"2009-04-19T16:06:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T20:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2009-04-19T16:06:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T20:06:06","slug":"time-to-shift-focus-from-scrum-tools-and-process-to-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/time-to-shift-focus-from-scrum-tools-and-process-to-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to shift focus: from Scrum tools and process to practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am ambivalent about the Scrum community&#8217;s focus on process and tools. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, it is this effort that has driven adoption and created an economy for us practitioners. But adoption is yesterday&#8217;s challenge. We&#8217;re kind of winning that one.<\/p>\n<p>We need to place less emphasis on getting new organizations to try Scrum to more on getting existing teams practice Scrum better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/judykat\/2639593636\/\" title=\"DSCN1768.jpg by kenjudy, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3282\/2639593636_614d2cd5a3.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"DSCN1768.jpg\" \/><\/a>How many of us many, many Scrum adopters strive towards the potential of the practice? <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where reliable software delivers monetary return to sponsors because it is truly valuable to end users. <\/li>\n<li>Where individual contributors are allowed to bring their most creative effort to the workplace to the benefit of both employers and end users. <\/li>\n<li>Where workers are allowed to live rewarding lives outside the workplace to the betterment of their families and communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not just exceptional productivity &#8211; ambitious enough as that is &#8212; but exceptional productivity <em>to a genuinely productive end<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Life is full of compromise but if that is not the aspiration &#8212; to fill our careers with as much of these achievements as possible &#8212; then why bother? <\/p>\n<p>Why spend money on training and tools to deliver more waste on short, iterative cycles? <\/p>\n<p>Why extract more lines of code that no one will test or use but only spend money to maintain?<\/p>\n<p>Why use the Scrum process to perpetuate the alienation of the knowledge worker from their work?<\/p>\n<p>Mastery means taking responsibility for ourselves and our peers. Grasping our practice is the sum of our intentions and actions in the service of something.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s my plea to shift the conversation back to it&#8217;s roots. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Agile&#8221; is about the material and human good we create when we respect our co-workers tell truth to our employers, strive to improve, and care for the people affected by the software we help build. <\/p>\n<p>We use a tool or process to the degree it furthers that end and no farther.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am ambivalent about the Scrum community&#8217;s focus on process and tools. Yes, it is this effort that has driven adoption and created an economy for us practitioners. But adoption is yesterday&#8217;s challenge. We&#8217;re kind of winning that one. 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