A Scrum Book

Product Organization Sequence

A pattern is an instruction to shape something we build to increase the Wholeness of the Whole. Organizational patterns—such as those in this section—are networks of people that an organization builds, restructures, or incrementally refines with an eye to overall improvement (see Kaizen and Kaikaku). The organization applies these patterns according to a sequence, trying only one pattern at a time to assess its contribution to organizational quality. Occasionally a pattern doesn’t work as expected, and it makes sense to try another pattern or to try patterns in a different order. Many different sequences can work, with as many or as few patterns as the organization sees fit, applied in what the organization feels ...