Publisher's Synopsis
Scrum is a brilliant tool. Very fun to look at and test but when used in frustration it only comes into its own. As all tools, particularly the best ones, the more you use it the more you become the defter and more expert. Work makes better, which is helpful because Scrum is built on a repetitive loop structured intentionally to ensure that they perform the same valuable tasks before they are of second nature.
Perfection is the enemy of growth, so no need to prepare your nth grade Scrum implementation before going off.
Inspecting and adjusting, and making gradual changes along the way is much easier. There might also be major items that obviously aren't quite right early and need to adjust immediately. Maybe the team position isn't exactly right or anti-Scrum whingers cause too much turbulence. The bigger problems will be fixed over time and a constant flow of smaller, even more manageable fixes will replace them.
When you do not make improvements, no matter how slight you make advances, then you miss the point. Often the urge to improve subsides, which results in the embrace of the stagnant status quo. A fear of rocking the boat sometimes prevents even slight changes. There's a illusion sometimes, almost unbelievably, that things are as good as they are!
Come to grips with life's Scrum loop but never become complacent or acceptant. The set steps along the way are extremely predictable and unvarying in one sense but they are never exactly the same twice in a far more critical manner.
THE BASICS OF SCRUM
Scrum is an observational perception paradigm at its finest, meaning that insight is derived from real-life experience and that decisions are made on the basis of that experience. It's a way to organize your project- whether it's releasing a new smartphone or co-ordinating the fifth-grade birthday party for your daughter - to reveal if your strategy is actually producing intended results. If you need to get things done, scrum offers a system that increases efficiency and results faster.
Common sense reigns inside of scrum. You concentrate on what can be done today, with a view to splitting into manageable pieces in future work. You can see quickly how well your creation process works, and when you find inefficiencies in your strategy, scrum helps you to act on them by making clear and fast changes.
Although empirical exposure modeling goes back to the beginning of time in the arts- in sculpting, for example, you're chiseling away, testing the effects, making any adjustments possible, and chiseling away some more- its modern-day use comes from computer modelling. The concept of empirical exposure is to observe or experience actual results rather than to simulate them based on research or complicated math formulas. So you make decisions that are based on those observations. Through scrum, you break down your project into actionable pieces and then watch every step of the way for your results. This allows you to make the changes required immediately to keep you on the best possible track.
This tightly packed group of athletes then throws the ball into the centre. Even though each team member plays a unique position, they all play roles both attacking and defending, and they work as a team to move the ball down the play field. Scrum often depends, like rugby, on creative people with varying roles and backgrounds working closely in teams toward a common goal.
