Common Sense Scrum: Why Scrum Gets So Much Resistance

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Eric Tucker — CST, CSP-SM, CSP-SO, A-CSM, CSM, CSPO; Trainer and Consultant with Corporate Education Group

24 years of software and systems development experience and 17 years helping individuals and organizations adopt agile. A Certified Scrum Trainer, Eric has trained and coached leaders, developers, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners, and has served as an agile coach facilitating Scrum and Kanban and developing new teams.

About this webinar

Many people assume Scrum exists to help teams solve the problems that come up while developing a product or service. Its real benefit is the opposite: Scrum’s superpower is its ability to reveal your problems, rapidly.

So why do so many organizations adopt only the parts of Scrum they like and drop the rest? Because nobody enjoys having their shortcomings exposed. Eric Tucker walks through the Scrum framework and makes the common-sense case for practicing it in its entirety — or not at all — because the short- and long-term benefits outweigh the short-term discomfort.

What you’ll learn

Scrum’s real superpower — why its value is in revealing problems fast, not in solving them for you.

Where resistance comes from — why teams cherry-pick the parts of Scrum they like and drop the rest.

All or nothing — the common-sense case for practicing Scrum in its entirety, or not at all.

Worth the discomfort — how the short- and long-term benefits outweigh the short-term pain.

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