A bit more Scrum lore
When we created Scrum back in the early 90's, we sequestered ourselves in an office park in Burlington, Massachusetts sufficiently protected from the blustery New England winter. We were trying to build something different. And we knew we had to do it in a different way. Jeff Sutherland had already discovered some previous art on new product development (Takeuchi and Nonaka. The New New Product Development Game. Harvard Business Review , 1986). In this paper the authors used scrum (among others) as a metaphor for new product development. They discuss how like in a rugby scrum, the product development team moves toward a goal. Well perhaps the authors played or watched a different version of rugby than I was familiar with! A rugby scrum is brutal. Opposing teams come together fight each other to influence the progress of the ball. Ears are bitten. Fingers are broken. While there needs to be "healthy tension" in product development, I winced at using "Scrum" as a ...