A Vision

We share a vision for the Work:

First, to provide a rationalized and authoritative description of Scrum with particular respect to its origins and to those committed to furthering both our understanding and practice of these ideals.

    • Too many artefacts in today's Scrum milieu either lack any rationale for Scrum's organization and practices, and many have rationales that are unaligned with the foundations of Scrum. This work will explore rationales from broad practice and from authoritative sources that exemplify, support, and illustrate the Work's goals.

Second, to articulate the world of work with systems thinking. The current tradition of organizational thinking tends to focus on organizational structure and values rather than just processes.

    • Patterns have proven themselves to have great value in articulating the latent structures within complex, adaptive systems. Thinking in deeper structure, and even the deeper level of the underlying value proposition, helps develop the understanding with which people's deepest inner selves can connect.

    • This connection can enable people in dialog through which they can enact those deepest inner selves and find their own ways, perhaps as templates in the short term that take people into great practice in the long term.

Isle of Mann, 25 March 2013