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How Scrum Can Drive Your Company’s Profitable Growth

Kathy Kent Toney

April 11, 2019

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Discover Agility in Your Organization! 1

Agenda

• Scrum Fundamentals

• How Scrum Drives Profitable Growth

• Scrum Case Study

• Questions

Discover Agility in Your Organization!


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Scrum Defined

Agile method: Loose set of guidelines that governs the development process of a product, from its

design stages to completion.

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Scrum Defined

• Originally used in software development projects, but has other applications:



Scrum Defined

• Emphasizes self-organizing teams

• Accountability and iterative progress toward a well-defined goal



Scrum Defined

• Proven to increase speed-to-market over stage gate methods



Stage Gate vs. Scrum

Metric Stage Gate Scrum

Planning scale/project start Long-term Short-term

Distance between customer & product developers Long Short

Project schedule risk High Low

Time to discover problems Long Short



How Scrum Drives Profitable Growth

• Accelerates product speed-to-market

• Delights customers

• Happier, more productive team

• Reduces product costs



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Scrum Case StudySchier Products

Problem• Stage gate process was cumbersome

• Last new product took two years to develop




Solution• Discovery process process development

• Scrum process implemented in two months

• They ran with it!




Results

• Ten months later (Feb. ‘19) launched one new product

• Launched five other component systems that fit across their whole product line




Results (cont.)

• Product speed-to-market increased: 58% for ONE product

• Preliminary product demand is higher than expected

• Reduced labor costs



Additional Benefits

• #1: Laser Focus



Additional Benefits

• Disciplined, more thorough up-front planning



Additional Benefits

• Extension of Schier’s Lean thinking to products• Weeded out non-valued

added steps

• Customer value built into every task



Additional Benefits

• Final solution resulted in very few mid-stream changes/problems: • Daily Scrum

• Increased risk identification

• Greater team collaboration and accountability



Additional Benefits

• Increased team transparency• Improved team engagement

• Better estimation of tasks

• Whole company now aware of why engineering tasks require time

• Place everyone on the same page



In Closing….

Scrum drives profitable growth• Increased Sales revenue

• Increased productivity and capacity

• Improved process and information flows



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In Closing….

Scrum drives profitable growth (cont.)• Ability to create additional innovative products and

services

• Reduced costs and waste

• Scrum end goal…



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Contact Info

Kathy Kent Toney

816-429-1042

[email protected]



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