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Outcome-based assignment: Complexity and Empiricism · Immersive only
- Explain complexity and empiricism by using the Stacey chart, Cynefin Framework or something else.
- Use the exercise to identify parameters influencing a product development and how predictable they are.
- Create a one-pager describing the goals that the organization wants to achieve by using Scrum and Agile.
- Compare the evolution of various factors between the current situation and Professional Scrum and give some examples from your organization.
- Describe how the group would envision their environment when empiricism is evident.
- Collect a list of reservations people have in your organization about Agile and Scrum and how you suggest that these could be resolved.
- Find a simulation for complexity on the internet and run the simulation with team members and stakeholders.
- Analyze forecasts and plans from past projects or past period of your current project and interview people about their opinion about reasons for deviations from those plans.
- Analyze your current plan and identify if it is mostly focused on goals, features or work and how much flexibility it allows to change directions to still being able to deliver value.
- Facilitate a discussion with your stakeholders about what are the highest risks in your current project, how you can implement early signals and how you might react to these risks.
- Article · 20m The New New Product Development Game
- Video · 5m An Introduction to the Cynefin Model
- Article · 20m A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making
- Video · 5m Empiricism is an Essential Element of Scrum
- Video · 10m The Cynefin Framework with David Snowden
- Article · 3m Agile is constant change
- Video · 60m Transparency in the Trenches