Will Agile cause a ripple, or a tsunami?
An executive once said to me, "We want to do Scrum so that we can get a culture." And I said, "But you already have a culture. It's there. It just may not be the one you would like to have."
Very often, the existing organizational values don't match the Scrum ones. And, well, in most cases we wouldn't expect them to, at least initially. After all, you're probably initiating Scrum (or being asked to initiate it) for a reason. Many executives and managers say, "We want to do Agile because we need to do more with less, have better quality, or deliver faster." Others unfortunately think that the Scrum framework will solve all of their problems. What they fail to understand is that teams and the greater organization must adopt the values to appropriately apply the principles. By valuing and trusting the people, and their knowledge and interactions, the organization will find the right Agile solutions through its people. It's just that management classically...
