In a previous post, I mentioned that Paul Julius was seeing a 30% turn over after Agile practices are introduced.
Apparently, this is also expected by Ken Schwaber. This sounds quite contradictory to one the reasons for adopting Scrum, mentioned by Ken himself:
“Why should I be thinking about adopting Scrum? If you develop software and are unhappy with the turnover of staff[…] you should consider adopting Scrum.”
Well, as one can expect, the plan is that Scrum introduces disruption. Some people will leave, some will join, and hopefully the result will be a more stable team. This graph explains it better.
But that’s still hard to hear, isn’t it?
Scrum is not easy. It is not a silver bullet. It takes courage.
Check out http://www.implementingscrum.com/cartoons/implementingscrum-20061023.html for some writing about this topic — along with a cartoon or two!
– mike vizdos
http://www.michaelvizdos.com
http://www.implementingscrum.com
Hi Mike. I read and appreciate your cartoons. I have used the one on OpenSpace Technology as one more argument to get one such conference organized here.
Interestingly, I have recently experienced the opposite of what is described on this post.