I recently attended the regional Scrum Gathering for 2016 in Cape Town. This is a post in a series on the talks that I attended. All posts are based on the sketch-notes that I took in the sessions.
Danie Roux gave an entertaining opening keynote which started off with a re-telling of the well-known fairy tale: Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We also touched on the adventures of Cinderella (and her glass slipper) and the Hunchback of Notre Dame during the talk. Danie challenged us to consider the modern versions of the fairy tales (Shu) against the logic they contained (Ha – or huh?) and their actual origins in history (Ri). Besides some fascinating facts about the origins of some fairy tales, other take-outs from his talk were:
- Perspective matters.
- Roles are meaningless on their own – they need to be considered in the context of a relationship.
- A cadence is a pause. Pauses between notes create music.
- The three hardest things to get a team to do are: (1) Talk (2) Talk to each other; and (3) Talk to each other about work.
- The definition of ScrumBut: (ScrumBut)(Reason)(Workaround)
- Translation: When we say Scrum But we usually go “this is what Scrum would recommend”, “but this is why it won’t work for us”, “so this is what we’ll do instead”
- Perhaps we should try for Scrum And?
Finally, he told us the story of his friend and the glass Sable antelope… As a reminder that when we give someone a gift, we cannot be upset with what they do with it (even if they destroy it), regardless of what we invested in getting it for them.
Some references from the talk:
- Three Faces of Victimhood – Karpman’s Drama Triangle
- Double Loop Learning – Chris Argyris
- The SPINE model canvas
Anything in there that you found interesting?
Reflections of a Scrum Master 