Foreword by David J. Anderson
“Scrum is hard,” says Ken Schwaber, one of the creators of the method. It’s a defined process with a prescriptive set of rules that are known to work in combination. Scrum is known to work in the context for which it was designed. The real challenge for those adopting Scrum is in changing their context to enable Scrum to be effective for them. Changing the context of your business and the demands of your customers isn’t easy—and hence, “Scrum is hard.”
Back in 2002, when I was first contemplating what we now know as the Kanban Method, Scrum was not the dominant Agile method that it is today. Agile was new and the term “Agile software development” had been around for only one year. The best known of the Agile methods ...
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