Monday, 7 April 2008

Scrum and Motivation

It is very important in SCRUM to have motivated team. As far as we know SCRUM rule is "inspect and adopt". No one is telling developers what to do. They have sprint goal, they have list of functionality which should work after Sprint - they are doing whatever they thing is helpful to meet this goal. BUT, it works only if your developers really motivated to meet this goal. I am not talking not about lazy developers, no. But for some type of developers this goal is not so clear. I mean - they are doing theirs job, they are developing, they are finding new features in Java or somewhere else, so they are developing and developing, but they are not concentrated in meeting Project Goal. They are concentrated in development.

And they are good developers. they know a lot of technical things, etc. BUT it is not enough in SCRUM. Each team member should be concentrated in meeting Sprint goal, on adding new value to the Project. They should develop not for development, bu to add new value to the Project, which helps theirs team to meet Sprint Goal, to make Customer happy and to make Customer Business successful.

SO, good Project Manager should manage her/his team so it will be motivated to make this Project successful and to meet Sprint Goal, but not just develop day by day.

0 comments: