From fairytale characters to reality
I received interesting question related to Fairytale characters. “Where do you get these characters that are needed to make new product development successful?”
I bet that most organisations already have these people. The real problem is how to get them to rise to their full potential? When scrum is introduced to organisation I have observed that most people will meet the challenge and fill the demanding positions if there is enough freedom in organisation for it to happen.
The sad part is that scrum also reveals the weaknesses in organisations capability to develop people’s skills. In some cases I have seen organisations to fall back in old management habits because they are not willing to wait the people to learn scrum and how to enhance speed of product development by developing highly skilled people.