Ken and Jeff speaks

Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland

Speaks of the birth of scrum.

All your tubes listed here.

The New New Product Development Game

Takaushi & Nonaka's paper is being quated by Jeff (Scrum Allianance) on how the paper was infact the begenning of Scrum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QbMRew-Olk&feature=related

Think first and do first Strategies

If the environment is changing so much, can a system plan and execute?

The idea would be do, give prominence to DO FIRST, while doing that to see and think, giving feedback to the DO. Sounds similar (all those in scum)?

This is what we do in Scrum - time boxed delivery and at the end of it do a retrospective giving feedback to the next time boxed.

DO FIRST? really in scrum ? - we do a lot, lets do and see, lets try it out - thats whats promoted in Scrum.

You Tubes

A list of online videos that I found interesting on the topic:

TEDxRotterdam - Igor Nikolic - Complex adaptive systems

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS0zj_dYeBE

Viable Systems meet Complex Adaptive Systems

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QrPxTUWt8A

SF09 Using Complex Adaptive Systems as a Coach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBEEtrE-pno

This stream is interesting. It brings in Agile into CAS.

Complexity Sciences: a breakthrough by Peter Belohlavek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Myp5GZzBA

TEDxUofM - John Holland - Building Blocks and Innovation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzHVGd22vak

The mathematics of war - Sean Gourley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnP3L9aiwg4

the grand Finale ..

Jeff of Scrum Alliance on Self organizing teams of Scum

Self-Organization: The Secret Sauce for Improving your Scrum team

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1q6b9JI2Wc

Pigs Talk and Chickens Listen

One important element of Scrum is the people involved gets to take the decision.

The story goes that the pig and the chicken got together to give a feast to the farmer. And it was suggested to give Ham and Egg. On deciding whether to go ahead to do this or not, its the pig that has the say since he's "committed" and the chicken has no or little say since he's "involved".

So comes, only pigs have the say.

It follows, that its the project team that actually does the work has a say during the project team discussions on committing work. Not the chicken, like the management, who are only involved.

CAS and Scrum

This is the main reason for me to start this blog. Software development is faced with the challange of being adoptive and agile. they were the very ealiest to go in to flat structures in organisations.

now, you have Scrum - a heavily practiced and highly popular development process, which has similar thinking to what the good people in CAS are doing.

so lets share that.