Scrum Back to Basics: Think Big, Do Small, Iterate Often

Last week was frameworks for agility in general. This week Kate Megaw, Anu Smalley and Ryan Smith put the best known one under the microscope. They walk through where Scrum came from, why Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland waited fifteen years to write it down, and what the new Simple Guide to Scrum from Bob Hartman and Tobias Mayer changes. Kate makes the case for the 2020 switch from roles to accountabilities, and it turns out the three hosts cover all three of them between them. Then the can of worms: can you implement Scrum partially? From there it is Product Goals as Scrum’s answer to OKRs, why so many teams cannot write a Sprint Goal, why the Sprint itself counts as an event, and the two events teams struggle with most: the Sprint Retrospective and the Daily Scrum. This episode closes with the line of the week, borrowed from a PMI colleague. Think big, do small, iterate often.