{"id":61,"date":"2010-11-08T14:58:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T13:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/?p=61"},"modified":"2024-03-15T15:18:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T14:18:50","slug":"the-scrum-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/scrum\/the-scrum-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scrum Story"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"Ken Schwaber, who is known to be the co-founder of Scrum together with Jeff Sutherland, paid a visit to Sweden in April this year. Lean Magazine got a chance to talk with him about the origins and evolution of Scrum in the nineties, and what he thinks about the future of Agile Development.<\/strong><\/div>\n
The Scrum philosophy was conceived in the Boston area in the late eighties. This is where the two founders\u00a0Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland \u2013 in their respective companies \u2013 were building software products on object-oriented IDEs (Integrated Development Environments). These environments were the first to allow for integrated team coding, building, testing and rapid deployment \u2013 up to several times a day. \u201cJeff has always been a deep thinker, and he had been struck by the initial findings of Nonaka and Takeuchi,\u201d recalls Schwaber. \u201cJeff started forming a process according to those principles that also met the needs of a rapidly changing business with constant demands. I had been working on process, process automation, and methodology for a decade and was getting insufficient improvements in the underlying waterfall, predictive process.\u201d<\/div>\n

Sutherland kept experimenting with his groundbreaking concept, which he had already started to call Scrum. Eagerly, he kept calling Schwaber for his advice on it. Sutherland wanted to compare Scrum to whatever process Schwaber was using.
\n\u201cJeff was under the impression that I was using one of the major methodologies, like Navigator, Method\/1, or Summit. I told Jeff that I was using none of those, that I would have gone out of business if I relied on their unwieldy, unfriendly-to-change nature. When we compared what I did use with Jeff\u2019s Scrum, they were very similar. The rest is history, as we collaborated to bring Scrum to life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Evolution<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Sutherland and Schwaber evolved Scrum through trial and error at a number of companies during the 1990s \u2013 NewsPage, IDX Systems, Fidelity Investments, and PatientKeeper. The Daily Scrum, the burndowns and the Sprint Backlog were added, and planning Sprints were dropped. The importance of self-managing, cross functional teams became apparent and a bedrock to Scrum.<\/p>\n

Schwaber also collaborated with process control scientists at DuPont to tie Scrum to first principles in industrial process control theory, learning that the reason Scrum worked was that it was empirical.
\n\u201cIn 2001, the Agile Manifesto was formed,\u201d says Schwaber. \u201cThe signatories gathered in SnowBird because we felt our approach to software development had something in common that was far bet- ter and more people-oriented than the emerging favored process of the day, Rational Unified Process. The principles of the manifesto are the common touch points that we agreed upon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, Schwaber notices that the term \u201cAgile\u201d is often used in a careless way.
\n\u201cMany people think that there are Agile processes. There aren\u2019t. There are processes that conform to the Agile Manifesto principles, such as Scrum and Extreme Programming. However, the word Agile is often used as a description for \u2018we aren\u2019t using waterfall.\u2019 That is not what Agile means!\u201d
\nIn Schwaber\u2019s mind, Scrum and Agile started emerging for two reasons:
\n\u201cThe Agile Manifesto was a rallying point for dissatisfaction and a new approach. The emergence of new IDEs that were as powerful as SmallTalk, like VisualStudio and Eclipse, were the tech- nological enablers.\u201d
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Ken Schwaber, who is known to be the co-founder of Scrum together with Jeff Sutherland, paid a visit to Sweden in April this year. Lean Magazine got a chance to talk with him about the origins and evolution of Scrum in the nineties, and what he thinks about the future […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,83,4],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}