Craig catches up with Dave West, product owner and CEO at Scrum.org, at the Agile 2016 conference in Atlanta. They talk all things Agile and Scrum including:

• Water-Scrum-Fall came about because Scrum is often delivered in the context of a organisational waterfall lifecycle
• Scrum implies a magical Product Owner that is empowered and understands the market to effectively create a backlog and manage it and the Scrum Guide provides very litte guidance around this
• Nexus is a way of getting multiple teams working from the same backlog and provides an exoskeleton to Scrum
• “Scrum 21 Years and The Future” talk at Agile 2016
• People don’t get Scrum, it is always surprising how few people have read the Scrum Guide
• The Scrum Guide is in audiobook form (but not yet in Klingon)
• The Sprint Review is not a phase gate, it is the opportunity to inspect and adapt at the boundary of the sprint, try running it with continuous delivery and production results
• The way mono goes through a high school is the way in which Scrum should go through an organisation (according to Dave!)
• Some of the initial ideas and avenues for Scrum include The New New Product Game, Agile Manifesto, Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance
• Scrum.org was created to push the focus of Scrum back to the delivery of software (rather than the world of work and LEGO) and to decouple the assessment from the classes
• Scrum.org assessments include PSM I (I understand Scrum), PSM II (I practice Scrum) and PSM III (I am a coach / mentor around Scrum) to validate your learning as you grow into the role of a Scrum Master
• Over a million people a day are doing a Daily Scrum!
• State of Scrum – after 21 years the world is full of Scrum and software is being developed better, but the profession has not improved in the way we had wanted it to (we are not driving to value fast enough and we are not engaging the business correctly)
• Software is the business now, Scrum cares about product delivery
• Looking into Evidence Based Measurement in Scrum, how to help people do done (Scrum Delivery Kit)
• Organisational change is almost impossible – it is hard to change the existing organisation to do Scrum
• “Software in 30 Days” book and section on Scrum Studio (how do you build a persistent studio that delivers innovation on a business level)
• Pragmatic Marketing

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