Preface
“Ah, so it’s the opposite of Dilbert” was my psychiatrist friend’s reply when I gave him the quick overview of Scrum. (And no, I wasn’t seeing him to deal with the stress of writing my first book while my first baby kept me up all night!) Anyway, after a chuckle, I realized that not only had my friend distilled Scrum so simply and elegantly, but also, I had just found my opening quote!
Scrum and its agile cousins comprise the next serious evolution in vocational process and culture. I’m certainly not alone in observing that this is possibly the greatest leap forward since the advent of scientific management, aka Taylorism. (By the way, did you know that a certain Henry Gantt of painful stripy-chart fame was a disciple of Taylor?) Scrum ...
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