What HR Doesn't Know about Scrum
What HR Doesn't Know about Scrum
Scrum's relentless "inspect-and-adapt" cycle leads to change beyond software development practices. Scrum teams have reported changes in the way they think about human resources management. This article outlines ways Scrum teams may want to modify HR's beliefs and practices.
Scrum [1] is a framework for learning about products and the processes we use to build them. [2] Courageously applied, Scrum’s relentless “inspect-and-adapt” cycles leads to change beyond our software development practices.
Scrum has exposed the effects of outdated human resources management (HRM) practices at several organizations with which I’ve worked. [3] This article advocates modernizing these practices and their underlying beliefs.


