Scrum History
How Managers slowly got removed from Scrum
Scrum then and now, part 11
The ‘Scrum then and now’ series discusses the evolution of Scrum per specific topic. All its articles have this theme and can be read on their own.
Scrum has been around for years. Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber presented it to the world at OOPSLA in 1995. They based it on “The New New Product Development Game“ (1986) by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka.
Since 1986, many elements of Scrum have not changed at all. By contrast, some other parts of Scrum have continued evolving. With this series I aim to show you how radically Scrum has changed over the years, from 1986 to now. Through this I wish to achieve transparency on why certain ideas about Scrum materialised and help raise understanding on the current definition of Scrum.
“You have to know the past to understand the present.” — Carl Sagan
With this article, it is my goal to give you an overview of the evolution of (project) management’s role throughout the years. These roles used to be mentioned a lot in the early days of Scrum, but got removed from Scrum altogether.
