Ancient Japanese wisdom applied to Scrum (Or other Agile Practice)
Yesterday I wrote an introduction to Shuhari, you can find it here: Shuhari – The way of the Japanese Mastery
This post will talk about applying Shuhari as part of Agile’s philosophy. A working group is formed following the rules of the Scrum Guide.
Shu – “obey; protect “
The starting position is a Team that has just applied Scrum. They are all new to this, so they follow everything in the book.
- Sprint is a month, Planning is 8 hours, Sprint Review is 4 hours, Sprint Retrospective takes about 3 hours
- In the Daily Daily Scrum, they follow the concept of three questions (What did I do yesterday, what would I do today, did I encounter any obstacles)
- An Increment is completed at the end of the Sprint
- And many other practices are copied directly from the Scrum Guide
Ha – “break”
Here, a Team can learn many different Agile Practice, like:
- Kanban – like a result the Team decides to limit Work In Process. For example, a Team only works on one Item at a time
- Pair programming – Two Programmers work together on one Workstation
- #NoEstimates – Quit evaluating Story Points and moving to a fixed number of Story to plan for Sprint
- The team used inspections and adaptations from Scrum and concluded that households could reduce the Sprint length to 2 weeks.
Ri – “Leave; start”
Here, Team is learning from its own experience to form its own Practice, like:
- Keep Sprint Length Fixed – Teams can decide that they base their Sprint length based on the length of the Item in hand.
- Quitting Scrum – Team decided that Daily Scrum no longer fits their needs in collaborative work
- Have a 1-day Sprint – The team can decide that they repeat every sprint event every day
Kokoro = “Heart”
This is where it ends, according to Agile’s heart. From “Ri” we are coming to “Kokoro”, which basically understands the most basic nature. I have no existing examples of this state. I guess I haven’t reached “Kokoro” for Scrum …
Last words
Agile’s heart can cover many personal topics. See an example from the Agile Heart Website ( Heartofagile.com ). On all topics that Shuhari can be applied.
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[Source: https://medium.com/agile-insights/heart-of-agiles-shuhari-an-example-f59cf90efdd0 ]