Am I the only one who is watching this years later, as MySpace and Nokia are generally understood to be underperforming? Yet, I am a believer in short, iterative projects for LOBs and IT.
I agree with other comments here that this is an advanced view of SCRUM. I am a CSM and PMI-ACP and know how to implement SCRUM. But, until I watched this video I did not appreciate the basic principles of nature that make SCRUM work. I viewed it several times before the all of the pieces clearly came together for me. Complex adaptive systems and the uncertainty principle. Wow. Now I completely understand why multi-tasking wastes so much time. Richard Ellis PMP PRM CSM PMI-ACP
To btmore: I can appreciate that it sounds paradoxical. As said earlier, you have to try it. Jeff Sutherland has done Scrum for 15 years; I think the associated teams are quite happy with it (not to mention his firms).
A self organizing team does not mean a team that can successfully mimic the process used by their leader. While the links to human social interaction in this presentation are fascinating the notion that 500% improvement is most attainable through SCRUM seems limiting. A more open agile approach allows a team to innovate and come up with a process greater than a single SCRUM master could prescribe.
If only there was a way to get Google to advise the directors for the filming of the talks to SHOW THE DAMN SLIDES LONGER! It almost seems like their prime directive was to annoy the viewer as much as humanly possible.
To spayced: This presentation is geared towards advanced users of SCRUM methodology, people who already know what sprint, waterfall, and team velocity mean. You could have figured it out before watching by checking out the info section, it says clearly that "this session will be a "deep agile" presentation...". Also, the title is about "improving the team" - any team already using Agile development and SCRUM knows the terminology.
It would have been nice if he spent more time explaining some of the things he talked about it. Many people don't know what a 'sprint' is, outside of running. What do you mean by velocity? I already know what a 'waterfall' implementation is but I bet many people don't. I think there are a lot of good ideas here but if you can't explain them better, this talk is useless.
This is good ideology in theory. Anyone having executed real project knows, it’s done by deadline, command, control, burning midnight oil and ruining health. The real life project tool is not scrum - it’s greed (of getting paid) and fear (of getting fired).
I was just in Jeff's training, and his answer to your complaint was: These greedy and fearful people (among other negative people) bring the productivity down, and Scrum is the way to expose this fact to them to make them change (obviously they have to face their bad numbers if someone else can deliver a better number). And all great Scrum Masters have been fired by the boss at least once, but that shouldn't stop us from doing the Right Thing to change the culture by finding the next small thing to bring the Company in the right direction.
Not to bash agile, but this dude is a tool - he doesn't actually seem to know anything. I'd have to have this guy be responsible for "removing ipediments" for my team... Oh well, I guess if he keeps trying, maybe one day his squirrel will fly!
I like videos like this, but it seems that in every case, you have to waste huge amounts of time on completely irrelevant things. In this case we are shown that video of the guy dancing in different cities. WHO CARES????? If you have some thought to make a presentation like this available, or even if you're just doing it for a small audience, cut to the chase. Nobody can make any use of a dance video, and no one is interested in hearing more than 10 seconds of your personal history.
