Dave West on the State of Scrum and the Future of Agile

Published: Dec. 11, 2017, midnight

b'In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dave West, CEO and chief product owner at Scrum.org, about the state of Scrum in 2017 and the future of agile. \\n\\nWhy listen to this podcast:\\n\\n\\u2022\\tAgile adoption is now in the late-majority phase of the adoption curve; large organisations who are risk averse have seen the ideas proven elsewhere and they are adopting them\\n\\u2022\\tThe underlying issues are not that complicated \\u2013 we\\u2019ve got customers who have needs that they can\\u2019t explain and are rapidly changing, so we need ways to deliver products and experiment rapidly to enable us to learn and adapt to the emergent needs\\n\\u2022\\tThe unicorn organisations are not successful because of their technology; it\\u2019s because they have served their customers better than the traditional businesses did\\n\\u2022\\tThe primary customers of scrum.org are professional product developers, and helping them become more professional helps ensure the products are built better\\n\\u2022\\tYoung enquiring minds \\u201cget\\u201d why an agile approach is the obvious way of working in today\\u2019s world\\n\\u2022\\tThe future of agile is about communicating in different ways to make it relevant to different people to solve their evolving and emerging problems\\n\\nMore on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ http://bit.ly/2ygEufI\\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/2ygEufI'