OMS Consulting Partners, LLC

Warning:  Today's blog is part blog - part rant.  As always, I welcome your thoughts and differing points of view. To paraphrase Scrum co-founder Ken Schwaber, "Scrum is simple to understand but difficult to master ". He's also famous for saying that "Scrum is like your mother-in-law - it points out all your faults."   So be VERY wary of anyone that tells you that the transition is easy, and that we can just ignore the Agile Manifesto, Agile Principles and all the difficult and challenging cultural changes required to do Agile well and still expect to receive the benefits promised by Agile done well. I recently encountered an "Agile expert" who started a "training" by telling people that Agile is nothing more than the Miriam Webster definition of the word "agility".   Do whatever you want, as long as it matches that dictionary definition. Although the original drafters of the Agile Manifesto likely used the wo...