Are We Ready to do Scrum?

January 31, 2018

Yesterday many people received an email from Adam Weisbart, the person who created Build Your Own Scrum training sessions. In the email, there was a link to his new flow chart tool, “Are We Ready to do Scrum?”

As shown below his flow chart, this tool provides an interesting and simple view of whether people/teams/organizations are ready to go on the Scrum journey. This really resonated with myself, and my co-workers at the time especially when it comes to this organization. When going through the work flow, there are many similarities to the behaviours and current cultures here at this Big Five Canadian Bank. These behaviours when called out, can actually harm or hinder Agile transformations. But if we acknowledge them and work to actually improve these behaviours and cultures, we can transition to Scrum more easily.

If you’re reading this, I would love to hear your thoughts on this, and hope you might consider whether YOU are ready to do Scrum!