Time and Time Again

• What makes Scrum so revolutionary.
• You get more stuff done - faster and cheaper - twice the work in half the time.
• Eelco - redid his house in 6 weeks
• Decided to make the contractors use Scrum
• They had weekly projects they had to move to Done
• They had a board full of sticky notes listing out the tasks to be completed.
• It made them think and communicate about the project in a different way than they had before.
• The main thing the stand ups did -
• Removed dependencies
• Any construction project a lot of time is spent waiting for one part of the job to be done before the next can begin.
• Daily Stand up meeting was to get all those people in a room where they could quickly figure out how to work together as a team.
• Think about your job
• How much of your job is wasted while you're waiting for someone else to finish their work.
• For information to be delivered
• You're doing to many things at once.

Takeaway

• Time is Finite - Treat it that way: break your work down into what can be accomplished.
• Demo or Die: at the end of the sprint have something that’s done - something that can be used.
• Throw Away Your Business Card:
• Everyone Knows Everything: communication saturation accelerates work.
• One Meeting a Day: fifteen minute stand up. See what can be done to increase speed.

Waste Is A Crime

• The heart of Scrum is Rhythm.
• We're pattern seekers, driven to seek out rhythm in all aspects of our lives.
• What scrum does is create a different kind of pattern.
• It accepts that we're habit-driven creatures, seekers of rhythm - somewhat predictable
• 'What if I can take human patterns and make them positive instead of negative.
• Waste that infects our work, the cancer that eats our productivity, our organizations, our lives
• When I go into a company I find that 85% of the effort is wasted
• Only a sixth of the work done actually produces something of value.
• Taiichi Ohno - Toyota
• Waste is a crime against society more than business loss.
• Three types of waste
• Muri : waste through unreasonableness
• Mura : waste through inconsistency
• Muda : waste through outcomes
• Demings PDCA cycle
• Plan, Do, Check, Act
• Plan - avoid Muri
• Do - avoid Mura
• Check - avoid Muda
• Act - the will and motivation and determination to do all that.

One Thing At A Time

• People brag about their ability to multi-task
• The ability to juggle seems so attractive.
• The people that multi-task the most just can't focus
• How painful multitasking is to your brain, how much it slows you down even when you think it speeds you up.
• Simply doing tasks one at a time, instead of switching  from one context to another - half the amount of time it takes

Half Done Isn't Done At All

• Scrum takes a lot of its thinking from the Japanese manufacturing model
• The United States - this model is interpreted as Lean Manufacturing
• The idea is to eliminate as much waste as possible
• Doing half of something is essentially, doing nothing
• Scrum is a rhythm to the work.
• Done implies a complete and deliverable product that can be used by a customer.
• If you are tying up a huge amount of value in things that aren't delivering value - you wont have those resources to do other things.
• Jobs that arent done and products that arent being used are two aspects of the same thing:
• Invested effort with no positive outcome.

Do It Right the First Time

• Dr. James Womack - Lean Enterprise Institute at MIT
• Studied manufacturing
• Toyota - when a problem shows up on the floor - every worker has the ability to stop the whole line
• When that happens - everyone swarms to solve the problem.
• Not to yell at the guy - but to solve the problem.
• There is a reason that toyota became the number one car manufacturer.
• They did it right the first time.
• The process is continuously improved - the right moment to fix a problem is when its observed - not after the fact
• Do things right the first time.
• Fix problems as soon as you notice them - if you don’t you will pay for it.