Scrumtisch February: Scrum at Amazon with Alan Atlas
Alan Atlas was talking about his time @Amazon and how they do or do not Scrum in the S3 project.
Marion Eickmann
I am one of the founders of agile42. Even though I am not an engineer I consider myself almost a "Techi" as I have been working in the field of software development for 10 years now.
- On
- 23 February 2010
- In
- Scrumtisch Berlin
- Tags
- scrum, scrum amazon, scrumtisch
At the Berlin Scrumtisch in February 2010, Alan Atlas gave a presentation about his role regarding Scrum at Amazon (starting as early as back in 2004).
This presentation described how scrum was adopted by more than half of the software developers at Amazon. Amazon’s corporate and development cultures played important roles, both positive and negative. With no executive sponsorship, adoption occurred primarily a team at a time. The wide range of success across teams and organizations leads to a number of important lessons learned with regard to enterprise scrum adoption.
Alan gave examples on:
- The value of simply explaining ...
