Can You Answer the Following Question: What Is Your Product?
Why are some elements of Scrum purposefully vague and how does it impact your Scrum Team?
Scrum is very popular in the software industry. There are logical reasons for this. First and foremost, it started out as a new way of creating software. On top of that, Scrum is an Agile framework. Agile also has its roots in software development:
“We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.” — Manifesto for Agile Software Development
But how often is a product software only? Many Product Owner and teams do themselves and their product short by limiting their focus on software. Or even worse: a software feature.
In this article, I will discuss this anti-pattern and suggest ways to solve it.
A framework for complex product environments
With its roots in Software Development, Scrum is NOT a framework to deliver software features. It is something else:
“Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems.” — Scrum Guide 2020
