Scalable Adaptive Scrum

You already know that Scrum and Agile have been around for almost 2 decades helping software engineers solve complex problems in demanding situations. What you may not know is that over 400K Scrum Practitioners currently use these tools to sharpen their competitive edge. What you should know is that these same proven, successful methods and principles have now been successfully applied to the vastly more complex environments of marketing, operations, logistics and more. Now the competitive edge belongs to those who practice Scalable Adaptive Scrum.

Go Time Agile has created a unique system to balance the unyielding quality of principled management with responsive scrum tools. The system is called Scalable Adaptive Scrum. It is called “Scalable” because it works for any size group in any capacity as long as that group has a deliverable. It doesn’t require extra overhead since the principles dictate the workload be balanced with the size and ability of the individuals in the group. It is called “Adaptive” because no matter what the deliverable is or who the customer (even if that is the group itself) may be, our tools apply to that deliverable’s unique circumstance.

Go Time Agile delivers these tools and principles through training courses, on-site consulting, and learning materials from which one can train him or herself. See our list below of Scalable Adaptive Scrum learning possibilities and choose your best options.

Defined Mission and Objections

Before you start your agile journey, you need to select a destination and some intermediary goals to accomplish. You may not know how you’re going to get there, but if you know what you want to become then you are ready to start.

Accountability

This principle unlocks the power of all the others. Without it, there can’t be agility or Agile.

Planning Prior to Acting

It’s critical to prioritize based upon your mission and objectives, choosing what’s most important to do now. Plan, do, report. That iterative approach creates an environment for critical evaluation to make course corrections quickly. What you learn today will go into tomorrow’s planning. Since you can’t do everything you want, you’ve got to implement harsh prioritization to what’s most important.

Making Choices Based on Validated Learning rather than Opinions or Conventional Wisdom

Mark Twain was correct when he said, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” If it’s important test it. Don’t get lazy: ask “Why?” No great advancement ever came by looking at things the same way that everyone else did. Breakthroughs come by doing something different. Experiment. Fail fast. Succeed fast.

Transparency and Communication – No Silos

Barriers to communication can come in the form of policy, inconvenience, or attitude. Tear down those walls. A smart team learns from it’s successes and failures. Agile teams are faster because also learn from other teams’ activities. They automatically and openly show their own results telling the bad news as loudly as the good news. This allows the entire organization to move faster to achieving its objectives.

Continual Effort to Innovate Instead of Being Content to just Make Incremental Improvement

On a consistent cadence, agile team challenge themselves to try new things in search of making a big difference. Transformational innovation cannot come from incremental improvement, but it can come from iterative efforts to do so. All of the principles above have this idea as a foundation. We do those things so we can achieve. Agility isn’t natural for most people. It’s worth the effort of doing things differently so that they can accomplish great things and become something special.