Chapter 19

Empowering Teams to Discover Better Ways of Delivering Value

“The great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all.”

—Joshua Bell

Every chapter in this book has key takeaways to help you remember the salient points. In this final chapter, we will connect all the dots and paint a picture of what we should be aiming to achieve with our Scrum Teams. What you’re reading should feel familiar and bring together all the different topics we’ve already covered in the book.

Let’s start our journey of bringing everything together by talking about the wonderful world of music.

Making Music Without Making a Sound

In November 1943, a 25-year-old assistant conductor suddenly had to step in at short notice to lead ...

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