Quotes About Scrum

#1. A jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce - like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.

Prince Charles

#2. Doing scrum" is as meaningless (and impossible) as creating an instance of an abstract class. Scrum is a framework for surfacing organizational dysfunction. It is not a process and it is not prescriptive.

Tobias Mayer

#3. One of the Scrum rules is that work cannot be pushed onto a team; the Product Owner offers items for the iteration, and the team pulls as many as they decide they can do at a sustainable pace with good quality.

Craig Larman

#4. Three bloody roles, Scrum has, and only three. If you can't get that right, don't call it Scrum, OK?

Ron Jeffries

#5. The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.

Alan Lewis

#6. Any Scrum without working product at the end of a sprint is a failed Scrum.

Jeff Sutherland

#7. Differences:

Scrum:
- Timeboxed iterations prescribed.

Kanban:
- Timeboxed iterations optional. Can have separate cadences for planning, release, and process improvement. Can be event - driven instead of timeboxed.

Henrik Kniberg

#8. Scrum embraces the fact that in product development, some level of variability is required in order to build something new.

Kenneth S. Rubin

#9. I was too far away to observe what color Enid Starkie's eyes were; all I remember of her is that she dressed like a matelot, walked like a scrum-half, and had an atrocious French accent.

Julian Barnes

#10. I estimate that 75% of those organizations using Scrum will not succeed in getting the benefits that they hope for from it.

Ken Schwaber

#11. I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day scrum of government ... that what can get lost is the narrative, the hymn sheet ... the song that inspires and lifts people's sights.

Nick Clegg

#12. The Scrum idea of a separated Scrum Master is good for Scrum, but not appropriate for most projects. Good development requires not just talkers but doers.

Bertrand Meyer

#13. Would you fancy a shag?"
"Is that like a scrum?"
"It could be.

Caleb Crain

#14. Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal.
"Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed.
"Yes."
"One of your soldiers said he bit a man's nose off."
Vimes shrugged. "He's got a very pointed look if I don't use the sugar tongs, I know that.

Terry Pratchett

#15. I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.

Alan Lewis

#16. Scrum is like your mother-in-law, it points out ALL your faults.

Ken Schwaber

#17. If you find that your organization can't make the hard decisions that Scrum demands, then high-risk, uncertain projects have very little probability of success in your organization.

Jim Highsmith

#18. No, hoplite fighting was more individual and more spread out - a matter of spear fighting, not a gigantic, demented rugby scrum.

J.E. Lendon

#19. Before starting a retrospective, you need to think about which exercises would be most suitable.

Ben Linders

#20. Agile retrospectives give the power to the team, where it belongs!

Ben Linders

#21. Come on, I'm from Iceland; I don't do hip-hop.

Bjork

#22. Why do people not listen when you say no? Why do they think you are too stupid or too young to understand? Why do they think you are too shy to reply? Why do they keep badgering you until you will say yes?

Sharon Creech

#23. If London was an alien city, Edinburgh was another planet

Jess Walter

#24. Changing practices is one thing; changing minds is quite another

Mike Cohn

#25. The bear in him roared. Take! He backed her against the wall, his arms caging her there. "Is that so, lassie?" Chest to chest, thigh to thigh, his gaze bore into her shocked eyes. "Aye, ye'd do well to be afraid of me, for I want ye naked beneath me like I've never wanted another woman before.

Vonnie Davis

#26. We need to uncover better ways to improve and retrospectives can provide the solution.

Ben Linders

#27. A ScrumMaster who takes teams beyond getting agile practices up and running into their deliberate and joyful pursuit of high performance is an agile coach.

Lyssa Adkins

#28. It's more my own thing if I do instrumentals, but I also do really love collaborating with vocalists, so it's a good balance.

Flume

#29. Getting feasible actions out of a retrospective and getting them done helps teams to learn and improve.

Ben Linders

#30. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

Mahatma Gandhi

#31. Without a good facilitator, a retrospective most likely will be a disaster.

Luis Goncalves

#32. Rituals bring people together, allowing them to focus on what is important and to acknowledge significant events or accomplishments.

Luis Goncalves

#33. If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.

Alva Myrdal

#34. To focus on the visible at the expense of the essential is irresponsible.

Bertrand Meyer

#35. I am intrigued and even moved by the idea of being right with the reader in the actuality that she or he is reading a poem. So the titles are an acknowledgment of the reality and value of that act in the world.

Matthew Zapruder

#36. Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.

Andrew Stanton

#37. The goal of retrospectives is help teams to continuously improve their way of working.

Ben Linders

#38. Focusing on the score attaches you to the result. Focusing on the process lets you access your greatest skill and increases your fun.

John Douillard

#39. A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.

Frank Underhill

#40. The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Albert Low

#41. With agile retrospectives the team drives their own actions!

Ben Linders