Guest Lecture Report “Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

The interactive workshop on SCRUM Project Management System took place on 5^th Jan, 2016 at the Vishwabhavan Auditorium from 3:0-5:30 PM in Symbiosis Institute of Health Science, S B Road, Pune.

Speaker-

The guest speaker for the session was Mr. Rahul Kadri, Partner and Principle Architect, I.M. Kadri Architects from Mumbai. He is a known architect and designed townships for Tatas, Jindals and Reliance, Hotel and Resorts for Taj and Club Mahindra, College Campuses for Symbiosis and Supreme Court of India and more.

Session Details-

The lecture was organized by the Symbiosis Institute of Health Science in Vishwabhavan Auditorium for the students of MBA-HHM programme and the faculties of health and biomedical science for the knowledge on the SCRUM Management System

The session started with welcome address by the Director of SIHS Dr. Rajeev Yeravdekar, who welcomed the guest speaker Mr. Rahul Kadri and gave an introduction about him to the audience.

The speaker started the lecture by introducing to us the book of

“Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, By Jeff Sutherland”  in which he talks about how the Scrum is an agile process, how to reduce the time for doing any work and how to increase efficiency on doing work in the stipulated time. People work best when they are happy, “Authentic happiness” was his starting agenda.

He spoke on what is a team, importance of teams- How to get a team to be effective, how to make an ordinary team into a good team using the scrum technique. He emphasized on the speed and accuracy of a team managed with scrum technique and its comparative study with the other ordinary teams. He focused that the main aim of any business is to create customers. He told us about the product and the scrum master which are included in an agile transition.

He spoke about how a scrum master doubles the speed of work and reduces the effort exerted on it by half. He also told us about the sprints and phases of the technique, how we should retrospect to improve. Then he gave us the motivational speech on how multitasking is different and is a way of restricting the distraction from the work. He told us to rate the stories- which gives maximum value and takes the least amount of effort, which is also responsible for the revenue. The product owner and the team, they are a cross functional team. A scrum master should be someone who will take charge and follow a process. There has to be be autonomy and alignment.

In the end he gave some examples of the companies who are using the SCRUM technique in their organization like Google, Oracle, Microsoft, a Sweden aircraft carrier designing company SAAB. The SAAB manufactures the fighter planes and aircraft carrier with the SCRUM technique which makes them the world’s greatest aircraft manufacturing company.  Finally we had a session of  Q&A with the audience and cleared their doubts and queries.

Outcomes of the Training Workshop-

At the end of this session, the students of MBA(HHM) and faculties of health and biomedical science gained knowledge on how the SCRUM/Agile transition works in an organization and how does it increases its efficiency while reducing the time period. They learnt about how the scrum technique can help the organization to work without distraction between its employees and giving the customer satisfaction at each and every stage.