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How Scrum Can Drive Your Company’s Profitable Growth
Kathy Kent Toney
April 11, 2019
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Agenda
• Scrum Fundamentals
• How Scrum Drives Profitable Growth
• Scrum Case Study
• Questions
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Scrum Defined
Agile method: Loose set of guidelines that governs the development process of a product, from its
design stages to completion.
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Scrum Defined
• Originally used in software development projects, but has other applications:
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Scrum Defined
• Emphasizes self-organizing teams
• Accountability and iterative progress toward a well-defined goal
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Scrum Defined
• Proven to increase speed-to-market over stage gate methods
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Stage Gate vs. Scrum
Metric Stage Gate Scrum
Planning scale/project start Long-term Short-term
Distance between customer & product developers Long Short
Project schedule risk High Low
Time to discover problems Long Short
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How Scrum Drives Profitable Growth
• Accelerates product speed-to-market
• Delights customers
• Happier, more productive team
• Reduces product costs
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Scrum Case StudySchier Products
Problem• Stage gate process was cumbersome
• Last new product took two years to develop
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Solution• Discovery process process development
• Scrum process implemented in two months
• They ran with it!
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Results
• Ten months later (Feb. ‘19) launched one new product
• Launched five other component systems that fit across their whole product line
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Results (cont.)
• Product speed-to-market increased: 58% for ONE product
• Preliminary product demand is higher than expected
• Reduced labor costs
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Additional Benefits
• #1: Laser Focus
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Additional Benefits
• Disciplined, more thorough up-front planning
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Additional Benefits
• Extension of Schier’s Lean thinking to products• Weeded out non-valued
added steps
• Customer value built into every task
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Additional Benefits
• Final solution resulted in very few mid-stream changes/problems: • Daily Scrum
• Increased risk identification
• Greater team collaboration and accountability
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Additional Benefits
• Increased team transparency• Improved team engagement
• Better estimation of tasks
• Whole company now aware of why engineering tasks require time
• Place everyone on the same page
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In Closing….
Scrum drives profitable growth• Increased Sales revenue
• Increased productivity and capacity
• Improved process and information flows
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In Closing….
Scrum drives profitable growth (cont.)• Ability to create additional innovative products and
services
• Reduced costs and waste
• Scrum end goal…
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Contact Info
Kathy Kent Toney
816-429-1042
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