Why We Stopped Doing Scrum (And the Good Parts We Kept)

Slides for a lecture given at Hasso-Plattner-Institute, University of Potsdam on why Camunda stopped doing Scrum as a development process, which parts we keep around (for good reason).

Summary

* focus on what you would like to achieve
* understand your tools
* implement structure and culture
* change what is not working

Transcript

1. 1/18/2019 Why We Stopped Doing Scrum (And the Good Parts We Kept) file:///home/nikku/Private/Documents/presentations/2019-why-we-stopped-doing-scrum/index.html?print-pdf=1#/ 1/20  Why We Stopped Doing Scrum Why We Stopped Doing Scrum (And the Good Parts We Kept) (And the Good Parts We Kept) Nico Rehwaldt / Camunda
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