Chapter 14
Human Resources and Finance
IN THIS CHAPTER
Creating a culture to attract excellent scrum team candidates
Developing talent for scrum
Morphing into scrum with existing employees and new hires
Identifying the benefits of incremental funding
Improving the budgeting process
When the winds of change blow, some people build walls, and others build windmills.
— CHINESE PROVERB
Baby Boomers are retiring rapidly, new generations of employees are taking their places, and human resources (HR) has taken on high-level organizational value. Wasted funds from failed products indicate a smarter way to finance product development must exist. As in so many business functions, old methods of achieving goals are becoming outdated.
Companies that can recognize their core HR and finance issues and then apply the scrum framework to the solutions are staying ahead of the pack. Many opportunities exist to increase human potential and financial effectiveness through scrum.
In this chapter, we ...
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