Down Scrum’s Rabbit Hole!
Mapping Alice’s adventures in Wonderland to Scrum.
Medium and The Public Domains released Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland. All images below are by Sir John Tenniel from the 1865 edition, via Wikimedia Commons.
During the Road to Mastery, I often referred to Alice’s adventures in Wonderland. Now it’s time to lay it out in full.
The Scrum Guide is rather bland. It’s not all that great at explaining ‘why’ it reads what it reads. It’s somewhat mystifying. When you go down its rabbit hole, you will do a lot of unlearning. No wonder you’ll end up in wonderland.
Stories are fundamental to how we perceive, think, and act. Our cognitive abilities are nested inside stories. It’s ‘the narrative’ that helps us navigate a complex landscape of values and principles. Scrum needs more than a rulebook. And we can’t drink values and principles from a bottle that reads ‘Drink Me!’. Scrum needs stories.
The first story I selected is my favorite. It’s, you guessed it, the story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. We’ll break the story down, unravel its deeper meanings, and contextualize it to our workspace. Sounds rather fun!
