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How I discovered Agile is about Ownership

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How I discovered Agile is about Ownership

By helping a Management Team embrace Scrum

Erik de Bos
Mar 30, 2023
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How I discovered Agile is about Ownership

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I often notice how Scrum Teams get caught up in endless discussions about how Scrum should be done. These are often not about solving the problem at hand, but about fitting some theoretical interpretation of Scrum. Discussions can become quite dogmatic and polarising. The passion is encouraging but the resulting confusion is not.

Thinking about this strange contradiction, I often wonder whether theory actually makes implementing Agile more difficult. Recently, I had a perfect opportunity to test this idea.

I was invited to help a management team better understand what Agile is. They were having trouble achieving their business goals and were curious about whether Agile would help them. They had a 2-day retreat planned and gave me a full day to tell them about Agile.

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