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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

3. Cultural Characteristics of Scrum

Author : Dominik Maximini

Published in: The Scrum Culture

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In order to understand a culture, one has to know where its origins are and how it evolved. Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland presented Scrum for the first time at the OOPSLA conference in Austin, Texas, in 1995. At this point they had already been working together for several years. Both had huge experience as software developers, project managers, line managers, and owners of IT companies in the United States of America. They were struggling with the status quo of dealing with software development, specifically waterfall project management approaches. At that time, projects and companies they were involved in were failing and due to the pressure they were feeling, they went in a different direction. At the same time, lean management and empirical process control as well as iterative and incremental development practices were emerging and impressed Ken and Jeff. Especially the works of Babatunde Ogunnaike as well as Takeuchi and Nonaka (1986) influenced them (cf. Schwaber and Sutherland 2012, p. 27).
This chapter describes the origins of Scrum and shows the results of literature research regarding the Scrum Culture.

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Footnotes
1
Especially Ogunnaike and Ray (1992).
 
2
For a deeper explanation of Scrum, refer to other authors, e.g. Schwaber (2004, 2007), Schwaber and Sutherland (2012), Cohn (2009).
 
3
This is well documented, for example in Schwaber (2007, p. 85) and Schwaber and Sutherland (2013, p. 11).
 
4
Scrum: A framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value (Schwaber and Sutherland 2013, p. 3).
 
5
For example in the following books: Schwaber (2004, p. 12; 114), (2007, p. 6; 86; 106); Cohn (2009, p. xxvii; 283).
 
6
By the way: Communication is extremely important in complex work, whether you are using Scrum or not. Offshore development is a challenge independent of the methods used.
 
Literature
Cohn, M. (2009). Succeeding with Agile. Software development using scrum. Amsterdam: Addison-Wesley.
Gloger, B., & Häusling, A. (2011). Erfolgreich mit Scrum – Einflussfaktor Personalmanagement. München: Carl Hanser.
Ogunnaike, B. A., & Ray, W. H. (1992). Process dynamics, modeling and control. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Schwaber, K. (2004). Agile project management with scrum. Redmond: Microsoft Press.
Schwaber, K. (2007). The enterprise and scrum. Redmond: Microsoft Press.
Schwaber, K., & Beedle, M. (2002). Agile software development with scrum (Pearson Internationalth ed.). Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.
Schwaber, K., & Sutherland, J. (2012). Software in 30 days. Hoboken: Wiley.
Gloeden, D. & Häusling, A. (2013, February). Recruiting 3.0 – Ein Wegweiser für die Suche nach agilen Spezialisten. eBook. Köln: HR Pioneers.
Takeuchi, H., & Nonaka, I. (1986, January–February). The new new product development game. Harvard Business Review, 64(1), 137–146.
Metadata
Title
Cultural Characteristics of Scrum
Author
Dominik Maximini
Copyright Year
2015
Book
The Scrum Culture

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-11826-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-11827-7

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11827-7_3

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