Our organisation is constantly changing — we manage this with Scrum

Summary

The website content outlines an organization's continuous improvement and adaptation to market changes through the implementation of Scrum methodology, with a series of articles detailing their journey.

Abstract

The organization operates in a dynamic and complex environment, necessitating constant evolution to maintain its market leadership. This adaptive process is characterized by incremental changes and pivotal moments that redefine the organization's direction. The organization's commitment to improvement is evident through initiatives aimed at fostering closer collaboration among business, development, and operations teams, enhancing incident and change management processes, and advancing CI/CD and DevOps practices. A series of articles titled "Serious Scrum" documents the organization's transformation journey, covering the formation of Scrum teams, early experiences with inspect and adapt moments, the impact of small changes, and the successes and setbacks encountered along the way. The series is ongoing, with the fifth part currently under construction.

Opinions

The organization views constant change as essential for improvement and market leadership.
Integrating business, development, and operations is seen as a key area for improvement.
The organization believes in the value of CI/CD and DevOps initiatives to enhance their processes.
The series of articles suggests a commitment to transparency and sharing knowledge with a broader audience.
The use of Scrum is considered a strategic approach to manage organizational changes effectively.
The author invites participation and contribution to the "Serious Scrum" conversation, indicating an open and collaborative culture.

Introduction

Our organisation functions in a complex environment. We have to adapt constantly to remain market leaders. Sometimes we have pivotal events that come across as drastic changes (like forming a new organisation structure), but in reality the changes occur organically with pivotal moments that define the current direction.

Our organisation is constantly trying to improve and therefore is constantly changing.

Examples of our improvement areas are:

Getting business, developers and operations closer together;

Improve the processes to handle incidents and changes;

CI/CD initiatives;

DevOps initiatives.

Our organisational improvement Scrum teams

Our organisation is constantly changing — we manage this with Scrum

Introduction

Serious Scrum series

Part 1 — Forming the Scrum team

Our organisation is constantly changing — we manage this with Scrum

Part 1: forming the Scrum team

Part 2 — Our first inspect and adapt moments

Our organisation is constantly changing - we manage this with Scrum

Part 2: our first 'inspect and adapt' opportunities

Part 3 — Small changes can have major impact

Bringing Dev and Ops together: “Now I’m wasting all my time on fixing incidents!”

Part 3: DevOps makes our issues painfully clear

Part 4 — Successes and set-backs

Our organisation is constantly changing — we manage this with Scrum

Part 4: Successes and set-backs