Did you know – (Agile) Scrum’s roots are from more than just Software Development?

For #thankfulthursdays I would like to give gratitude to Jeff Sutherland.

If not for him, I wouldn’t have had the tenacity to experiment on how the Scrum Framework can apply outside of the Software Development industry, for businesses to become more Agile.

In today’s post I will be sharing with you 3 videos that I learned a lot from, and that led me towards this path of exploring the Agile framework.

So if you’re looking to see WHY you should try to implement Agile and Scrum outside of Software Development, assuming you haven’t yet, then watching these videos will definitely be helpful to you.

The first video talks about The Art of doing Twice as much in Half the Time.

You see, while most people binge on Netflix or like to do movie marathons, I binge on educational courses, books, podcasts, and Ted Talks.

And being a Lean Six Sigma Practicioner, this video caught my attention when I first saw this, as it was all about productivity improvement.

Little did I know that it was going to be one of the most eye-opening Ted Talks I have ever watched, and has since changed the way I think about how I work.

In this video, Jeff Sutherland takes uks back in time as to how he came up with the Scrum Framework and later, the Agile Manifesto.

The Story behind Scrum

Now there are 2 things that struck me the most about this video.

The first is that Jeff talked about how he took the worst business unit in the bank, then divided it into teams such as sales, marketing, installs, engineering, and then he ran weekly cycles, and in less than 6 months, turned it into the best business unit in the bank.

This tells me that Scrum is applicable in a wide variety of process types and even outside of Software Development.

The second thing that struck me the most is where Jeff talked about how Scrum is being implemented in schools, that students did things in their own, and the teacher did not say a word.

How profound is that?

So I dug deeper into these, and out of all the research that I did, the following 2 videos summarize my findings best.

Scrum outside of Software Development

In this video, Jeff talks about Scrum’s roots, and how even a farmer was able to implement it to earn 4 times as much money after implementing Scrum.

Scrum in School

This is what Jeff was talking about the implementation of Scrum in schools in the Netherlands.

Final note

I hope you learned a thing or two from Jeff Sutherland, just as I did.

Now if you want to read more about what I’ve been doing in the Agile world, click here: https://robbieagustin.com/category/blog/agile/