Scrum Causes Change

Scrum clarifies the roles of management and workers, helping each focus on their work and not waste time on the other's work :

• The role of management is to assess the marketplace, set direction and priorities, and to provide resources.
• The role of workers (engineers) is to build the best possible products that they know how.
• The assumption of workers is that management is competent at their job and their work will sell and provide money that they need to live.
• The assumption of management is that the workers will apply their skills as best they know how to build these products.

Given these assigned roles, management and workers can use the following contracts. The contract from management to worker is :

• We know the marketplace.
• We know what to build to successfully compete.
• We have provided adequate resources to build product that will generate enough revenue for us to be at least self-sustaining.
• We will provide a workplace in which your productivity is maximized.
• We will pay you a fair salary.

The contract from worker to management is :

• We understand how to do our work.
• We will apply our skills as best we can to build the products you identify.
• We will constantly assess our industry to ensure that our skills are the best possible and that we use the best technology possible.