Scrum Police: Serving Up Agile Justice One Scrum Team at a Time

Mike Cohn and Mountain Goat Software bring you The Scrum Police: enforcers of the so-called Scrum rules. 0:16 Meet Brian Milner, New Director of the Scrum Bureau of Investigations (SBI) 0:28 See what happens when Scrum Masters fail to tell their bosses to keep quiet during daily scrums 0:36 Visit someone in lockup who thought they could be both Scrum Master and Product Owner (at the same time!) 0:41 No one (not product owners, not Scrum Masters, not even an author of the Scrum Guide) is safe from a knock at the door from the Scrum Police (aka SBI) 0:52 Watch out if you fail to create a Definition of Done 1:02 End a sprint planning meeting without a sprint goal, skip a retrospective, or bend any rule to fit your context at your own risk. 1:15 April Fools! Come and visit ScrumPolice.com and confess to your Scrum crimes or report a repeat offender. At ScrumPolice.com, we're publishing a growing list of "offenders" who had the audacity to approach agile as a set of solid principles and good practices and guidelines--instead of an etched-in-stone set of hard-and-fast rules. We're here to show them that it's the Scrum way or the highway! The Scrum Police is all in jest but the idea that there is only one true way to be agile is a prevailing myth that we hope this video and website will help bust once and for all! Further reading: Don't Call the Scrum Police: There's more than one way to be agile (https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/dont-call-the-scrum-police-agile-rules-are-rare) Six Agile Myths Busted (https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/six-agile-product-development-myths-busted)