Scrum – Mizan's work pad

Currently Scrum is the most popular Agile framework and many teams are willingly or forcefully adopting it. Since Scrum does not work like a magic tonic and cure all problems, sometimes it can create problems by making everything transparent. Another challenge for adopting scrum is the readiness of the team members or management.

In Bangladesh or any other country in the subcontinent, adopting scrum is a big challenge as we struggle with self managed team concept. we love to follow people rather than taking the lead. we are not aware of our potentials and capabilities. As a result we lack in self esteem and motivations.

If you are planning to adopt scrum at your organization, the following suggestions might be very helpful.

Step 1:

Management (CEO, CTO, Directors, Investors etc) must have clear idea about scrum
Learn from Agile/Scrum professionals rather than own intuition

Step 2:

Start with a small team as pilot project
Train the team about scrum paradigm

Step 3:

Give team time to understand scrum and try to motivate them to be self managed. As a nation, we are not used to with self management properly.
Do not force them to start immediately

Step 4:

Run a test or small project for first time
Get help from experts during the first few iterations

Step 5:

Measure teams output with expected results
Try to find out where team is struggling and fix those

Step 6:

Keep patience during the whole transformation
It can take few weeks to few months for a team to adopt

Step 7:

Once the team outputs the expected result, try to repeat it for other teams
It can work as a base for others

Step 8:

Always plan, execute and adopt. Do not assume that team understood scrum properly and no need to invest time on study
Empower team members, give them opportunity to understand themselves

Step 9: