Our Leaders Use A Scrum-Like Approach To Fight COVID-19
They inspect and adapt through tough times
Scrum is founded on empiricism. All rules, artifacts, and events exist to support it. Empiricism is a radically different way to create products because you acknowledge that many things are unknown. You need to inspect and adapt. Many of us have been struggling to explain empiricism to our stakeholders. Now, however, we see empiricism all around us in how our leaders fight COVID-19.
COVID-19 has the world in its grasp. It’s a pandemic of unseen magnitude in our modern world. It impacts or will impact all countries in the world, and there’s no simple solution. Every country needs to tailor a response to its specific situation.
In many countries, politicians have acknowledged that they aren’t experts in this field. Virologists and medical specialists are the beacons who guide everyone through these tough times. When they speak, the country listens.
This is why the Dutch government makes decisions based on the advice of the Outbreak Management Team (OMT), whose tasks is to determine the best response to the developments involving the pandemic. This OMT has all the people to achieve their goals, like the country’s prominent:
- virologists;
- statisticians;
