All change is hard. I’ve seen employees in an uproar over something so small as a
change in their company’s healthcare plan. Larger changes can be even more painful.
But there are certain attributes of transitioning to Scrum that make it more
difficult than most other changes.
Chapter Contents
- Why Transitioning Is Hard
- Successful Change Is Not Entirely Top-Down or Bottom-Up
- The End State Is Unpredictable
- Scrum Is Pervasive
- Scrum Is Dramatically Different
- Change Is Coming More Quickly Than Ever Before
- Best Practices Are Dangerous
- Why It’s Worth the Effort
- Higher Productivity and Lower Costs
- Improved Employee Engagement and Job Satisfaction
- Faster Time to Market
- Higher Quality
- Improved Stakeholder Satisfaction
- What We’ve Been Doing No Longer Works
- Looking Forward
- Additional Reading
Mike. This is a great chapter. I read it when you were posting drafts and enjoyed it.