Scrum as a technique for managing a team of people with common goals works very well.
Indeed, it works damned well.
This has been demonstrated in more cases than I can cite for software development,
but where else does Scrum work to help us get things done? I have heard of successful
attempts to use Scrum in non-development environments, but primarily it seems to be
useful as a tool for managing creative individual contributors.
I just had an idea radical.
My wife and I can use Scrum to manage our family.
Get it? The kids are the individual contributers, my wife and I can be the customers
and Project Managers. The kids can rotate the role of Scrum Master!
People, this rocks!
I think my wife is going to freak out when she reads this (she is the currently the CMMI
Project Manager of the house), but it is a great idea, baby. Trust me.
We’ll talk when I get home. 