Druckman: Scrum avoids months of wasted work through rapid customer feedback
Angela Druckman · When the Time Comes You'll Know What to Do (Then She Changed the Mantra) · Jul 19, 2023 · at 3:21
Angela Druckman, founder of The Druckman Company, reflects on why adopting Scrum early in her engineering career solved chronic IT delivery failures.
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“And immediately saw the difference and we were able to get things into people's hands quicker, which made them happier, but most importantly, we could get feedback from them. So we didn't go off in a direction for months and months just to discover, ah, that's not really what we were looking for.”
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