Introduction
“The essence of Scrum is a small team of people. The individual team is highly flexible and adaptive.”
—Scrum Guide, November 2017
These two sentences from an older version of the Scrum Guide resonate strongly with me. I believe they truly represent the essence of Scrum. Scrum is about empowering people to do the right thing. Scrum involves experimenting, discovering, learning, being flexible, and adjusting your plans as necessary. It is about working with what you do know to discover what you don’t know. Scrum, in a single word, is about learning.
Unfortunately, many Scrum Teams seem to lose this essence somewhere along the way. Doing Scrum perfectly becomes a goal in itself. People become enchanted by the illusion that following ...
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