Tips and facts after from the company wide adoption of Scrum at Yahoo! Captured during the Gabrielle Benefield's keynote on Scan-Agile. During the adoption period, Gabrielle Benefield was Senior Director of Agile Development at Yahoo!, co-leading the company’s large-scale corporate adoption of Scrum, which now encompasses more than 200 teams projects and over 1,500 employees in the US, Europe, and India. Tips should be mostly applicable for similarly sized enterprises, though generally useful for smaller companies as well.
- Bribe with snacks, seriously
- You will be surprised how many minds free food can open.
- Get total commitment from all parties or they will shoot you.
- Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
- Change costs money - invest in coaching, otherwise it is too easy to go back to waterfall.
- At Yahoo! each Scrum Trainer was starting up and was coaching about 10 Scrum teams a year.
- Average velocity increase due to the Scrum adoption across the company was estimated conservatively at 35% per year (measured from team impressions since before Scrum velocity wasn't measured). In reality in many cases it was more like 300%-400%.
- Even under conservative estimate that made net development cost reduction of over $1 million a year and Return of Investment in transition and expensive trainers was about 100%.
- No design out of the sprint cycle? That doesn't always work. Even Scrum authors (at least one of them) changed his mind about this rule.
- Make 20% of the teams very good, rather than improve 80% of the teams to the mediocre level.
- 15% to 20% of people don't like Scrum consistently (18% in 2005, 19% in 2006, 17% in 2007).
- There might be just a single window of opportunity. Do a deep dive, train managers as soon as possible.
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Bribe with food!
November 17, 2008 by Kevin E. Schlabach (not verified), 4 years 26 weeks ago
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I believe it was Linda Rising at Agile 2007 that had data in her presentation (deception & estimates) from psychological studies showing that feeding people will make them more likely to agree with your position.
So bribing with food is not only a way to get them to come to your meeting, but it's a good way to get agreement amongst the parties involved.
Great pointers, Artem. I
January 9, 2009 by James Expert (not verified), 4 years 18 weeks ago
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Great pointers, Artem. I couldn't agree more with food as a way to steer people. However, I think people will somehow know that you're just 'bribing' them. Not all can be bribed, you know.
Who said that?
March 24, 2009 by peterstev, 4 years 8 weeks ago
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Who said that? Is that online anywhere?
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Schwaber or Sutherland :)
March 24, 2009 by Artem, 4 years 8 weeks ago
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I am quoting Gabrielle Benefield here. I don't clearly remember, but I think she referred to talks to Ken Schwaber, not to Sutherland.
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