Selling Scrum

I am in the process of trying to sell the Scrum process to people outside of our
Engineering team.  This is an interesting process, because it truly makes me
test my own assumptions about the idea.  I must be able to convincingly make
a case for Scrum and get other teams to buy off into it. 

On the first pass, what I hear most often is, “So this won’t affect us, it’s
just a way that your team wants to do their work?”

The answer is no.  Adhering to Scrum takes buy in from a lot of other people
in your organization.  Project Managers, Product Managers (BA Types), Operational
Managers and others are all required to participate in the process.  Indeed,
one of the most effective things in the process is showing your executive stake holders
the progress that has been made at the end of each sprint.

I am robbing a ton of information from the links below to make my case, and as I do
more research I am more convinced than ever that Scrum will be an effective tool.

Links

• http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules.html

• http://www.controlchaos.com/

• http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/presentations.php