In 1986, Prof. Ikujiro Nonaka with Prof.Takeuchi co-wrote a well-known paper "The New New Product Development Game'', and coined the word "Scrum" which is later referred to by JefF Sutherland, Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle in this modern Scrum in Agile development context. In this session, I will present some important ideas about “how innovation is created" and "who is the center of the innovation”, discussed in the Nonaka's Scrum concept but not yet discussed in the Agile world, using his "SECI" knowledge creation model. This theme is from his new book "Wise Company"(2019, Oxford Press) and "Agile and Scrum"(2021, Shoeisha Japan) co-authored with me.

He originally discussed the SECI-model in his book "Knowledge Creating Company", and now I’ll put it in the context of Agile. How tacit and explicit knowledge transform each other into innovation, and why “Design Thinking” (or empathy to the users through experience) should be inserted to the first part of the process (or Ideation phase).

I want to share the "missing links" between his original Scrum thought and the current implementation of Scrum in the Agile world.

There are crucial aspects to the agile mindset in order to achieve organizational agility. One of them is the notion of servant leadership. And it’s a wonderful aspiration. Serving your team, your peers, your leaders, and your organization. It’s an ego-less and selfless posture and central to the mindset. But what often can get lost in all of this service is…service to oneself. And placing service to self above the others so that we can serve them all the better. And by serving, then delivering on the innovative, high-value, and high-impact promises of agility in operation.

In this session, we will be deeply exploring the notion of self-care. We’ll look into several aspects of it, exploring the notion as more than simply taking time off or exercising. So, as a group, we’ll create a much richer landscape in what taking care of self looks like by leveraging a self-care canvas I’ve developed. Finally, we’ll take a step back and look at what gets in the way of our self-care. What are the blockers and impediments from ourselves, our teams, and our organizational cultures? And we’ll discuss some ways to overcome those impediments.

Gunther Verheyen will contribute to the online 2021 edition of the Scrum Summit event with a session about “The Value in the Scrum Values”. He will shed a different light on the popular framework, the perspective of the Scrum Values.

Gunther observes how the ‘process’ aspect of Scrum becomes more and more accepted and embraced. The empirical process as implemented by Scrum is increasingly replacing the old, traditional predictive management approaches. The people aspects of Scrum however are much less acknowledged, let alone embraced. Organizations overlook that Scrum, actually, is more about behavior than it is about process. The benefits realized through Scrum largely depend not on the rules, but on the interactions and collaboration of the people employing Scrum. And values drive behavior. As behavior also expresses values, Scrum is also expressed through its five values.