Scrum Fairy Tale
The dwarves were working quite happily before snow white arrived. They had their mountain, the cave, their cosy little home... And each of them worked according to his role. They did not perceive any problem.
One day, coming back home, they found a guest in their house. Snow White had arrived—I guess you know that part of the tale—and had started to initiate some changes.
Olaf Lewitz
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Snow white and the dwarves
The dwarves were working quite happily before snow white arrived. They had their mountain, the cave, their cosy little home... And each of them worked according to his role. They did not perceive any problem. One day, coming back home, they found a guest in their house. Snow White had arrived—I guess you know that part of the tale—and had started to initiate some changes. First, there were struggles. Snow White challenged the status quo. Some dwarves did not like that. But Snow White was insisting, treating them as impediments. Things changed. Through the initial disturbance, a new status quo evolved. Having had their say in open discussions, the dwarves felt consent with the new way. As Snow White was taking care of the house, removing organisational and tedious stuff from their daily routine, they even saw it as an improvement. Now, the new way was their way. After a while, they thought: This is the way we do the things round here.
Context
In trainings, after introducing the Scrum concept, we let participants draw pictures of how they understood Scrum, letting them find and discuss a suitable metaphor to show their mental model of the framework. In one of our recent trainings, one group drew the above picture and told this story.
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