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Everyone Uses Scrum But Many Haven’t Uncovered Its Full Potential
There’s so much more to unpack
Scrum is everywhere. Almost everyone in the software development industry who has been working ‘Agile’ has worked with Scrum.
According to the State of Agile 2020, around 95% of the organisations polled practice Agile development methods.
It doesn’t mean all teams in the organisations work ‘Agile’, but it is widely adopted. From all the teams using ‘Agile’, approximately 75% work with Scrum or a Scrum inspired approach.
In the Technology Adoption Lifecycle picture below, Scrum is at the end of ‘Late Majority’. Many consider Scrum to be standard practice.
But what kind of Scrum are the respondents talking about? People use Scrum’s roles and events. They have short Sprints to deliver small pieces of software regularly.
But they don’t embrace the true spirit of Scrum. They hit a glass wall. They should be able to do better, but they find it beyond their reach somehow. With this article, I will address what I mean with this and why this is a problem to fix.
