Scrum: getting beyond the framework ... All the meetings and artifacts have no value as long the attendees of the development process are not attending to what they and YOU do. This presentation is a short introduction to a workshop to get the audience into the thing. As You hopefully know, it needs around 15 minutes to get really into. That's for that ;-)

1. Attention, please!
… about importance, urgency and awareness

2. importance and urgency
IMPORTANCE adds value
URGENCY avoids damage and harm
… concentrate on gaining rather than avoiding ;-)

3. urgency
• There is no urgency known in Scrum framework
• There is only importance and due date
• Everything You do should be important
• Everything You do should add value
• Urgency indicates that someone missed importance
• Urgency drags You off the track
• Fix it, if it is really important - and get back on track soon
• then LEARN from it to stay always on track in future

4. Handle priority
urgent
important
Eisenhower-Matrix
everyday
2
3
why?
failure!
1
4
Don‘t
bother
no yes
yes
no

5. How to avoid failure?
•Attentiveness!
• Is everybody aware of importance in
YOUR work environment?
• Is everybody attented to what YOU (pl.) do?
• Falsification: how often does urgency occure?

6. How does it feel?
What is the condition of Your work environment?
Desert mode: - dead and dry
Thunderstorm mode: - everybody hides away
Headless chicken mode: - aimless motion
Mechanical mode: - force with collateral damage
Beehive mode: - aligned energy all around

7. Focus vs Openness
Do they contradict?

8. Prepare for attentiveness
• Excercises
• Focus on the orange spot (directing conciousness)
• Moonwalk gorilla (simple awareness)
• Human energy field (there is more than You see)
• Attention to Your body (there is more than You think)
• Ninjutsu sensitivity exercises (bridging physical world)
• Zen meditation (attention to Your mind)

9. RoTI* for this workshop
• 5 finger:
Significant more value gained than time invested.
• 4 finger: good value.
Gained more than time invested.
• 3 finger: balance.
Invest and result equal each other.
• 2 finger: useful.
Some value. Invested too much time.
• 1 finger: waste.
Lost time. Gained nothing.
*RoTI: “Return on Time Invested”

10. More of that?
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