Scrum at Scale • Jeff Sutherland • GOTO 2015

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2015

Jeff Sutherland - Scrums Grand Old Man - Co-Founder of Scrum

ABSTRACT
Scrum is the revolutionary approach to project management and team building that has helped to transform everything from software companies to the US military to healthcare in major American hospitals.
In this talk its originator, Jeff Sutherland, explains precisely [...]

TIMECODES
0:00 Introduction
4:14 Strategic Objectives Determine Scaling Approach
10:42 Modular Framework for Scaling Scrum
11:44 Moore's Law Applied to Software
15:26 Scaling Scrum Requires Leadership
17:30 Understanding Dual Operating Systems
19:21 General Electric Implements Dual Operating Systems
27:15 The Secret of Agile Performance
32:30 How the Executive Action Team Works
33:21 The Meta Scrum: Leadership Action in Scaled Serum
34:08 Leadership Action Team Crushes Impediments
36:17 Deploy Aggressive Scrum!

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[gabrielliwerant]

The biggest problem with scrum and other agile methodologies that I find is that it does not force accountability at the highest levels of leadership and management at a company. Scrum seems to assume that the process is entirely a matter of what happens at the level of the scrum team, and this often gets treated like a process you can just import to your devs. Everyone in the company, from CEO on down, needs to understand how to work effectively in agile/scrum mindsets in order for any scrum team to be successful. But scrum does not involve leadership in its cycle of iteration or accountability at all and this is its Achilles heel (and I don't mean, "invite the CEO to your retro").

[dwachira]

I like this presentation as it shows the inevitable future way. We have to attend to our goals in this thinking.

[ericdefazio]

I find the entirety of this presentation intellectually insulting:
1) Scrum isn't working/scaling? "it's not a problem with Scrum... just "retrain management from the CEO on down" (just Hire Jeff and he'll git 'er done)...
2) Ascribing successes in Leadership as "Well run, Innovative, Energetic and Adaptive) to "Apple, Google, Spotify" and making the assumption these companies universally use use the scrumm methodology is a farse.
3) Ascribing failure to the methodology only applies when the methodology is not Scrumm (i.e. "Kanban" are burned at the stake for being "stuck in the deployment phase)
4) "outliers" that do not comply with the data (obviously) must be doing things the "old waterfall way)

In general the whole confusing "Correlation/ causation" and 400% productivity increase is laughable (I know a bold-faced lie when I see one)
I question the premise, the data collection, and the inference that scrumm = productivity

more like swarm stupidity:

"If you have large feet you earn more"

[heavencommamdo]

productive increase 400%
marketing word?

[jammerules]

"Do Scrum"... really? My whole life has been a lie :(

[wildpett]

This presentation is meaningless. Scrum/agile has become a new religion - that is to say: It creates its own set of rules and measurements instead of focusing in getting things done. The scrum/agile teams are more focused on earning points, have something to demo (regardless) do a spring planning, retrospective - it is an insult to thinking peoples intellect.