Implementing Scrum in an uncertain environment.

[Ahmed Al-Anim]

Hi All,

First of all, I am quite new to Scrum and I have been a scrum master since last 2 sprints(before this we completed 6 ScrumBut sprints). I also come from technical background instead of project management.

There is a lot of uncertainty about the company and highly likely everyone will become unemployed by 6 to 8 months. However to implement Scrum properly, I need motivated people. I am planing to motivate them through helping them understand how beneficial Scrum will be for them and their careers.

I would appreciate some suggestions and points. Or any other better approach.

Thanks,
Anim

[Howard Sublett]

Sounds like a tough spot. I'm sorry you are there.

It's not a bad strategy. You all will be getting experience for the future jobs. There is such a demand for experienced agile teams that by spending the next 6-8 months really learning more than the mechanics of scrum ( but the heart) you all will be well positioned for what's next.

Why not let your current employer give you the skills you need for your next career advancement?

I'd do some research in your market for available work that requires agile/scrum experience vs job requests where they are wanting waterfall. ( if there are any). Your peoples best hope at work after this ends is likely in an agile environment.

Good luck.

Howard Sublett
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[Derek Davidson]

Try this book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0033TI4BW/

Video of Dan Pink talking about motivation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

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On 8 July 2017 at 11:52, Howard Sublett <howard...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sounds like a tough spot.  I'm sorry you are there.

It's not a bad strategy.  You all will be getting experience for the future jobs.  There is such a demand for experienced agile teams that by spending the next 6-8 months really learning more than the mechanics of scrum ( but the heart) you all will be well positioned for what's next.

Why not let your current employer give you the skills you need for your next career advancement?

I'd do some research in your market for available work that requires agile/scrum experience vs job requests where they are wanting waterfall. ( if there are any).  Your peoples best hope at work after this ends is likely in an agile environment.

Good luck.

Howard Sublett
Cell: 501.622.7929
Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 7, 2017, at 11:40 PM, Ahmed Al-Anim <aaa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> First of all, I am quite new to Scrum and I have been a scrum master since last 2 sprints(before this we completed 6 ScrumBut sprints). I also come from technical background instead of project management.
>
> There is a lot of uncertainty about the company and highly likely everyone will become unemployed by 6 to 8 months. However to implement Scrum properly, I need motivated people. I am planing to motivate them through helping them understand how beneficial Scrum will be for them and their careers.
>
> I would appreciate some suggestions and points. Or any other better approach.
>
> Thanks,
> Anim
>
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[Henri Kivioja]

How about solely concentrating to get business value out to the customer for the “remaining months”. Isn`t that what Agility was supposed to be about? It _might_ also save the company ;)

BR

-Henri

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[Mark Levison]

On vacation. Sorry for the brevity. 

Combine Scrum with Lean Startup. Lean Startup assumes your product backlog is a series of experiments. Each experiment tells you where to spend time and where not to. Balance the experiments with product implementation. 

The best book in this area for my tastes is Running Lean by Ash M. 

Cheers 

Mark Levison 

[John Miller]

Anim,

I am sorry your team is in the situation. 

Hard to me motivated when you may be unemployed soon.

I would, on top of the other great suggestions, hold a Retro. Bring the topic to the team. Ask how they are thinking, feeling, and needing given the situation. Then, what do they want to do going forward to help them get these needs met. I would throw in Henri's idea in the retro somewhere "What if we could turn the ship around and save the project/company? What would we be doing to make that possible?".

Best of luck to you and your team. 

Thanks,

John Miller

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[Punita Dave]

Hi Ahmed,

Very sorry you are in this situation - it is a tough spot to be in. Use the available opportunity of learning one of the most effective and new way of software product development, while waiting for the bad news to come in. It will help the team members hit the ground running next time they work with Scrum Framework. Secondly, for all you know, active interaction with stakeholder and customers might help turnaround the ship from its expected crash into the iceberg. If these 2 things do not motivate the teams, it is a tough spot given the current state of your company.

Regards,

Punita.