Making an Impact is hard.
Each day you’re working to make a difference. There’s just a lot to get done. It can be easy to feel overloaded, or like you’re just spinning your wheels to have a meaningful impact.
I work with you to design solutions, frameworks, or habits that allow you to focus on what’s important. These solutions maximize your impact, freeing you to take a long-term high-impact approach.
When making a decision, it’s helpful to list out the pros and cons. If you’re considering Scrum, you might be wondering:
What are the pros and cons of Scrum?
This list will give you a quick survey of the benefits you’ll experience and the challenges you’ll face. If you want a deeper dive, be sure to check out the definition of Scrum or the Everyday Scrum Guide.
Pros of adopting Scrum
- Early Progress. Teams can make meaningful progress even when requirements are still being discovered.
- Flexibility. Because Scrum iteratively organizes the work into sprints, the team can change as needed.
- Focus. Work only gets added at the beginning of each sprint, allowing the team to focus on what’s a priority.
- Delivery. The team quickly delivers functional features with the most value by working off a prioritized backlog.
- User-Centered. The team receives feedback from both internal and external stakeholders by reviewing regularly delivered value.
- Visibility. Transparency is built into the process allowing high visibility into the work being done.
Cons of adopting Scrum
- Scope Creep. Without a clear end to the project, sometimes more gets added than should be later in the project.
- Scaling. Adopting Scrum across multiple teams can be difficult at first.
- Fit. Some projects by nature are sequential, and Scrum isn’t best for every kind of project.
- New Meetings. Some people don’t like the idea of daily meetings at first, though this usually changes with time.
- Team-Driven. This one isn’t a con (it’s actually a strength) unless the team becomes unhealthy. Team health has a high impact on the successful delivery of the product.
- Experience Required. For the team to produce quality work requires a team of experienced professionals.
Scale Your Impact
What if it took the same amount of work to engage and serve 100 people as it would for 10? Let’s map out your workflows and processes and then adapt them in order to impact others at scale.
How to learn more about Scrum
While Scrum is a simple framework, there can still be a lot to learn, especially at first. If you want to learn more about Scrum, here are some topics I think will be helpful to you.
To learn more about Scrum, check out my What is Scrum? A Guide for Everyday People to Learn Scrum. If you have more questions, please feel free to reach out on LinkedIn.
If you’re curious about Scrum can be applied to different kinds of work, I've linked some helpful articles below.
Making an Impact is hard.
Each day you’re working to make a difference. There’s just a lot to get done. It can be easy to feel overloaded, or like you’re just spinning your wheels to have a meaningful impact.
I work with you to design solutions, frameworks, or habits that allow you to focus on what’s important. These solutions maximize your impact, freeing you to take a long-term high-impact approach.
This post is part of an upcoming guide called Everyday Scrum? A Guide for Everyday People to Learn Scrum where I will explore and explain the key elements of Scrum.
Perhaps you have heard about Scrum but are not exactly sure what it is. Or maybe you know some about it but are not sure how to apply it, especially outside a software development context.
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There are a lot of new terms when learning the Scrum essentials, and this post probably introduced you to some of the vocabulary.
If you want to learn more about specific Scrum topics, here are a few to choose from or check out the scrum FAQs.
Applying Scrum
- How do I keep my team focused on the right work?
- What to do when projects change?
- Getting work done as a team
- How to change direction after investing effort?
Agile in Everyday Life
- Can I use Scrum for non-software development projects?
- Scrum for marketing
- Scrum for creative design
- Scrum in content creation
- Scrum in personal development
- Scrum in education
- Scrum in everyday home projects
Scrum Roles
- What is a Scrum Product Owner?
- What does a Product Owner do each day?
- Getting Certified as a Product Owner
- What is a Scrum Master?
- What does a Scrum Master do each day?
- Getting Certified as a Scrum Master
- Can The Scrum Master And Product Owner Be The Same Person
- How Is A Scrum Master Different Than A Project Manager?
Scrum Meetings
- How to do a standup/check-in?
- How to do sprint planning in Scrum?
- How does backlog refinement work in Scrum?
- What is a sprint review in Scrum?
- How to conduct a retrospective in Scrum?
Scrum General Topics
- Why Use Scrum?
- What Is The Definition Of Scrum?
- What Are The Pros & Cons Of Scrum?
- Scrum: Expectations Vs. Reality
- Is Scrum Hard To Learn?
- How To Align The Scrum Values With Your Organizational Culture
- What's the difference between iterative and incremental development?
- What Is The Definition Of Done In Scrum?
Scrum Advanced Topics
- Learn To Forecast Progress In Scrum
- What If I Don't Have All The Roles In Scrum?
- Scaling Using SAFe
- Cost Estimation
To learn more about Scrum, check out my What is Scrum? A Guide for Everyday People to Learn Scrum. If you have more questions, please feel free to reach out on LinkedIn.
