The Essence of Agile and Scrum

I was at a BOF at SD East and Craig brought up that he thought that
time-boxing, as in the Sprint, was the essence of agility. I demurred a
reply at the time, but I've decided in retrospect that time-boxing is
critical. However, the following aspects are equally critical, and all of
them play with each other to create the beauty of agility:
1. That the work being done in the time-box is of the greatest urgency and
importance to the user, the customer, otherwise why is the time-box
relevant?
2. That the people in the time-box are able to be as creative as possible to
reach the best solution they can come up with. That is, that the principles
of self-organization and then emergence will be given full play within the
time-box. If someone external is directing the team, then it's not agile.
3. That the team has good engineering practices so that what they create is
the real thing, not just some pale shadow of the real thing ... such as a
buggy, poorly designed set of functionality that really never has a chance
of being "an increment of potentially shippable code."

My thoughts,
Ken


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