Scrum by the Generals

I was the product owner in the book "Scrum and XP from the Trenches" by Henrik Kniberg. As I will come back to on this site, I think that the message it conveys is a bit wrong. The book presents Scrum as something of a subversive underground movement, but from an organizational perspective, why should you take such an approach when you as easily can get the Product Management to drive this.

On this site you find articles on Scrum and Lean and how to successfully introduce Scrum.

Albeit Scrum has grown in interest over the years, it is not unchallenged. A lot of this book is addressing the change process and how to get it right. And the big reason for this is of course that it is quite difficult. So why aren’t people seeing the result they were hoping for in the introduction of Scrum? To start, let’s take a look at some of the common misunderstandings...

Introducing the Scrum methodology is not difficult. Getting some improvements from it is not so difficult either. Getting the gold and glory the books or advocates are promising has however over and over proven illusive. The question is of course why...

...The other problem with the book is the tone it sets that scrum as a methodology is something to be run from the development department. Albeit a lot of the practices within the framework are related to development, this is not a silver bullet. One of the problems in introducing Scrum has naturally been to answer on wherefrom the productivity gains will come. Changing the way the development department works will only achieve so much and without the support from product management this may not even be noticeable in the organization, which unfortunately many organizations actually has been experiencing...