Online event: Scrum Patterns -Not Just About Sucking a Little Less

I'm SUPER PLEASED to invite Jim Coplien ("Cope") as our online guest speaker. Note: due to the time delta this will be a 2pm meeting, August 4th. This meeting is also being co-advertised on the AgileRTP meetup.

Please note the Scrum quiz within the text below and take the quiz - should take 5 minutes - which will help set us up for the event.

Any questions please ping me!
Catherine

Title: Scrum Patterns — Not Just About Sucking a Little Less

In some sense Scrum is simple with only eleven main components, but its rollout and operation are intricately complex. Even with its broad certification base and online standard, it is difficult for people to appreciate its complex subtleties from a 16-page guide and a two-day course. We all assumed that the deviation from good practice was small or innocuous until we started taking stock about ten years ago. We discovered just how worried we should be. Folks don’t understand or even know how the parts work together. We sometimes see only 20% improvements in performance from Scrum transitions, if that. Even the parts themselves, people retrofit to their old mental models and complain when it gets hard to pedal the motorcycle.

The Scrum Patterns are the new defacto Scrum standard with input from Scrum’s inventor and nineteen others among the world’s top Scrum experience tier. Collected, researched, and refined over nine years, and ranked #1 among the top 45 new Scrum books of 2019 by BookAuthority, these patterns guide practitioners into an agile rollout of Scrum, one pattern at a time with feedback. Each pattern takes the reader on an internal journey through those management and development instincts with which they were born and which Scrum encodes. And if the two are in conflict, we certainly defer to the individuals and interactions behind such sentiments rather than the process specs in patterns-cum-tools.

This afternoon’s talk aspires to raise the bar about what Scrum is and can be, and to paint a path to better understanding both the parts of Scrum, and Scrum as a whole, so you can better inspect and adapt your process going forward. To help set the tone of the evening, please take the quiz at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdGSCtIpNGPOc7YYA__-W5tEyRg0GDsHZ4Nt3WIMIMAapyOuA/viewform

It should take you about five minutes.

It will help you better appreciate the program, and you may find it fun, in a twisted kind of way.

Logistics:
4 August 2020
14:00 - 16:00 EDT
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81363503022?pwd=TCtHNnNtU3NlRy9sSjczdGFsbldWdz09

About our speaker:
James "Cope" Coplien has been a programmer, professor, researcher, and executive consultant over his 45-year career. He is widely published in object-oriented design and programming language, as well as in organizational design and development process, including the seminal "Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development.” Scrum’s Daily Scrum came from the research behind that book. He is the creator of Organizational Patterns and was the Product Owner of and a lead contributor to the recent "A Scrum Book: The Spirit of the Game,” and a peppering contributor to “97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know.” He lives with his wife, dog, and three horses in Denmark. When he grows up he wants to be an anthropologist.