Hi Michael,
I'm working with a community of people and some specific organizations
who are trying to apply agile methods outside of software. One area
where it is being applied, for example, is in a large oil industry
company that is using agile to plan and execute mining projects. In
doing this, we have found that Scrum is not quite applicable. As you
know, Scrum is ideal for new product development. This excellence
means that many people are trying to replicate the ideas of Scrum in
other areas, but often there are changes that are made. A really
simple example of this is a person who uses Scrum to manage their
personal to-do list. In this case, it is impossible to have a full-
time ScrumMaster and a full-time Product Owner who are not the same
person. This is a fundamental rule of Scrum and so breaking the rule
means that you are not doing Scrum.
OpenAgile is an attempt to take the principles of Scrum and other
agile methods, but generalize them slightly so that they are more
broadly applicable. It is also an open source community and we
welcome people to share experiences and help shape the direction of
OpenAgile.
Please take a look at OpenAgile (
http://www.openagile.com and
http://wiki.openagile.org). Also see
http://bit.ly/doZixj for a
comparison of OpenAgile and Scrum.
Thanks,
Mishkin.