We now have a new 2020 version of The Scrum Guide! This was released publicly on the 18th of November 2020 (US time) during an online event that celebrated 25 years since Scrum was presented in 1995. As a Scrum Alliance guide, I am in the privileged position of having had a preview of this…
Part 1 outlined my experiences with Scrum in a PRINCE2 environment and outlined a number of conflicts betweenPRINCE2 Agile and Scrum as well as Agile principles. In Part 2, we look at likely conflicts from a roles and organisational design perspective. Conflicting Roles Conflicting Roles and Accountabilities The PRINCE2 Agile manual specifies that “all of…
Let’s start with a question. Which would you rather your organisation were more like: the British Civil Service; or a product innovator capable of out-manoeuvring a superpower’s market leaders? To boil it down to simple choices: if a) then choose PRINCE2 and forget Agile. Actually, even then PRINCE2 may not be a good way to…