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.