This was part of the lighting talk at the Agile Brazil event in Sept 2012

1. Entrepreneurism and Scrum
What every Entrepreneur need know about Scrum
Laszlo Szalvay
Agile Brazil
2012
ENTERPRISE
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2. 2004 Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winner
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3. Financial Collapse of Sept 2008…
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4. The Good News…. Smart Entrepreneurs are everywhere
Hiroshi Mikitani, founder and CEO of
Rakuten, Inc.
Taking on Amazon.com and recently
invested $100,000,000 in Pinterest
Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry
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5. My Belief
Business Agility is not….
Maneuverability without
consequence
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6. Line Graph
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7. The Building Blocks of Learning start early…
“a line graph of all of the kid's memories.”
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8. Why Start a Company?
Engineering, Building, Solving problems
Learning…
Working with people
you want to work
with…
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9. Why Start a Company?
Usually Not
about getting
Rich and Fat ….
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10. Small Businesses
Sometime between Childhood and Adulthood we lose… “Your time is limited, don’t
waste it living someone else’s
The Ability to Think
life. Don’t be trapped by
The Ability to Question dogma, which is living the
The Ability to Play and Work result of other people’s
The Ability to Learn thinking. Don’t let the noise
The Ability to be Happy of others’ opinions drown
your own inner voice. And
most important, have the
courage to follow your heart
and intuition; they somehow
already know what you truly
want to become. Everything
else is secondary.” -Steve
Jobs
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11. Small Businesses
Entrepreneurs find their voice and solve problems
Through
The Ability to Question
The Ability to Play & Work
The Ability to Learn
The Ability to be Happy
Starting a Company opens this possibility
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12. My Belief
Business agility
(re)defined –
maneuverability with
inspect and adapt
loops
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13. As a start…Incorporate These Things
A Culture of Learning and Questioning
The Right Metrics (Qualitative and Quantitative)
Organizational Scrum (Assertive Prioritization and maniacal focus on the Customer)
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14. Must be a Learning Organization
• Scrum won’t solve your problems. Scrum will
discover underlying problems in your organization.
It’s your job as managers and executives to solve the
problems Scrum unearths using a framework
CollabNet can teach you.
• Scrum doesn’t work when:
– You believe that your organization doesn’t have
problems
– Politically or culturally you can’t solve problems
• Scrum works when
– You have a learning organization. One where the
leadership sees solving problems as a means to a
better company.
Jeff Sutherland
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15. The Right “Agile Thinking” Metrics
The #1 Metric = CASH on hand at this very Moment
“Cash = Maneuverability for Small Businesses” – Jack Welch
(3) Stickiness
of your
Products or
Solutions
Others that are important too:
(1) Number of Happy Customers
(4) The Ability
e.g. Danube went from 4 to 1,600 in six years to make and
e.g. “C”MRR take bets with
Imperfect
Information
(2) Number of Happy Employees
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16. The Right “Agile Thinking” Framework
Do Scrum at the Organizational Level
(3) Executives (use
Program and
Product Backlog
Grooming to take
educated Bets)
(1) Marketing (sprint alignment with Engineering)
(2) Sales (Group Quotes)
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17. Laszlo Szalvay
VP Worldwide Scrum Business
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