Fredi Schmidli - Managing Partner, Co-Founderswiss IT bridge gmbhwww.swissITbridge.ch

Soft factors - a decisive prerequisite for applying Scrum

Agenda

1.About us2.Your interest?3.What are Soft Factors?4.Your key Soft Factors?5.Why focusing on

Soft Factors?6.Basic tipps7.Discussion

1. About us

1.swiss IT bridge gmbh2.Managing Partner, Co-Founder3.Background: Economist4.Why Scrum?5.Lean Agile Scrum community in CH/VN

2. Your interest?

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3. What are Soft Factors?

1. Soft Factors or human-oriented factorso Trusto Communicationo Motivationo etc.

 2. Hard Factors or technical factors

o CPU speedo Loading time for websiteo etc.

4. Your key Soft Factor?

3' exercise with your neighbour:  1. Your most important Soft Factor?

 2. Which you want to improve yourself?  3. Which you want somebody else to improve?

5. Why focusing on Soft Factors?

1. I spend more than 50% of my time with Soft Factors....2."True success with the Scrum framework comes

from teams and organizations who understand the values and the principles that form the foundation of all agile processes"

3. http://www.scrumalliance.org/pages/what_is_scrum

• Values, e.g.:Commitment (Time boxed sprint)Openness (Retrospective)

• Principles, e.g.: Communicate (Daily Scrum)Learn and improve (Retrospective)

• http://www.implementingscrum.com/2008/03/25/scrum-values-learn-them-live-them/http://www.scrumalliance.org/articles/5

6. Basic tipps

1. General:Cool head, warm heart  and working hands

2. Find out the true reason3. e.g. for Trust:

1.Situation2.Why?3.Consequence?

4. Conclusion:Important, but a challange to apply them

5. Action?Education/Training and Investment in firms

7. Discussion

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