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In this podcast, recorded at the Agile New Zealand conference in November 2016, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to David West, CEO and Product Owner of Scrum.org, about the history of Scrum, the importance of empiricism and improving the profession of software delivery.\n\nWhy listen to this podcast:\n\n - Between 12 and 15 million people use Scrum on a daily basis\n - Scrum.org\u2019s mission is about improving the profession of software delivery, not having more people use the Scrum framework\n - Empiricism and the scientific method are fundamental to being a professional in an industry\n - The Scrum delivery team needs to include \u201call the skills you need to deliver working software\u201d into the hands of end users so operations and deployment skills are a crucial part of Scrum\n - To enable teams to be successful, management needs to provide absolute clarity of the objective, move out of the way of the teams and support the ScrumMaster in removing impediments\n - The moral responsibility of software professionals to show integrity in their work\n\nMore on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ http://bit.ly/2n6NpxS\n\nYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq\n\nSubscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq\nLike InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8\nFollow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ\nFollow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq\nWant to see extented shownotes? Check the landing page on InfoQ: http://bit.ly/2n6NpxS