Process Governance
Until recently I have been thinking about agile and scrum from a project only perspective. My challenge ahead is how can a company effectively adopt practices that work for it - incremental change versus a big-shift.
The context within which I'm working is that people need to be able to move from one project to another with reduced churn in that movement. Thus if I'm on a Scrum project and then go to a waterfall project, I am going to experience some churn as I re-adjust myself to the change.
An interesting concept I've been reading about is called Process Governance. It is the establishment of boundaries in which process variation occurs. This allows the organization to set boundaries and the development teams to satisfy them as they see fit. In the book "Go Team", I noticed this same concept in an analogy of school children on an open school yard. Without a fence around the school yard the children would group together and not explore the school yard. When the fence was added, the children felt comfortable to explore to the edge of the fence.
Providing the development community within your organization with boudaries to work within is an effective way for teams to explore and innovate while knowing the limits the organization will tolerate. This makes everyone more comfortable in the end and balances the effect of process anarchy vs. process dictatorship.
The context within which I'm working is that people need to be able to move from one project to another with reduced churn in that movement. Thus if I'm on a Scrum project and then go to a waterfall project, I am going to experience some churn as I re-adjust myself to the change.
An interesting concept I've been reading about is called Process Governance. It is the establishment of boundaries in which process variation occurs. This allows the organization to set boundaries and the development teams to satisfy them as they see fit. In the book "Go Team", I noticed this same concept in an analogy of school children on an open school yard. Without a fence around the school yard the children would group together and not explore the school yard. When the fence was added, the children felt comfortable to explore to the edge of the fence.
Providing the development community within your organization with boudaries to work within is an effective way for teams to explore and innovate while knowing the limits the organization will tolerate. This makes everyone more comfortable in the end and balances the effect of process anarchy vs. process dictatorship.
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