In this Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dave West, CEO and Product Owner at scrum.org about the current state of scrum and the latest initiatives by scrum.org \n\nWhy listen to this podcast:\n\n\u2022\tScrum has been used for over 25 years and people are using it in different areas and the challenges are not around the rudimentary aspects of adoption rather it is about optimising the way of working in different contexts\n\u2022\tThe need to move beyond adherence to a single approach into a wider, pragmatic mesh of ideas from multiple sources\n\u2022\tThe fundamentals of Empiricism, self-organisation and continuous improvement need to be wrapped in discipline, customer-centricity and a value model that makes sense while we constantly improve our skills\n\u2022\tThe characteristics of the organic model are completely different to the factory model \u2013 thinking needs to shift from process adherence to values & behaviours, from specialists to generalists who are customer focused who can learn quickly, from hierarchies to flat organisations\n\u2022\tYou can\u2019t be agile without transparency and an empirical mindset\nMore on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2PtfhsE\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\nCheck the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2PtfhsE