Experiment: Deepen Your Understanding Of Scrum With Real-Life Cases

The Scrum framework is a lightweight framework to solve complex and adaptive problems. Although it looks easy on paper, it’s often much harder to do well in the messiness of the real world. Where do you make trade-offs? How can you model the Scrum values? How can you work empirically in an environment that isn’t suited for it?

To encourage Scrum practitioners to explore these questions, we created 52 real-life cases. These cases are inspired by our own experiences and those of the people we frequently work with. Use these cases for your community of Scrum Masters, as conversation starters in and around your Scrum team, or put your own understanding of Scrum to the test.

And no, there is no “right answer” :) The learning is not in knowing the answer, but in jointly deepening your understanding of the Scrum principles and values through reflection, dialogue, and putting new ideas into practice.

This experiment contains 6 free cases you can immediately use. We offer inspiration for when to use these cases and give suggestions for what Liberating Structures to try as conversation starters. If you consider it useful, you can download the total package with 52 cases for a small fee.

Give it a try and let us know how it went!