David Sabine

"Scrum involved not just the adoption of a new business process, or a framework for managing software development, but rather as a fundamental transformation of the way work was managed in the company."

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"It’s very rare that a meeting on a single topic should need to last more than 5-10 minutes."

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I was coaching a team of young developers as they were forming a new team and embarking on new work together. One of the team members made these two diagrams based on my brief explanation of Scrum. There are thousands of diagrams available on the web which depict the Scrum roles, routines, and artefacts. But these are wonderfully raw! It was almost three years ago, but if I remember correctly I had hosted the team launch event one morning and he (Andy) presented these diagrams to me before lunch. I've always thought one day I would make a digital rendering of his work but, truthfully, I feel that the raw authenticity is helpful -- "cleaning it up" in a digital format would degrade the information which these portray. I wish he'd have made similar digrams for Product Owner and Team Member roles, but I feel these two do well enough to capture the essense of Scrum Mastery. Enjoy! And thank you to Andy Zhu.

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