Introducing Amplio Scrum

This is the fourth in a series of articles:

1. Why Scrum was the original Model-T of Agile
2. Why Scrum’s success caused the challenges we now see with it
3. What’s been learned in the 3 decades since the creation of Scrum
4. Introducing Amplio Scrum
5. Introducing the Amplio Scrum Coach – going beyond the Scrum Master

What is Amplio Scrum?

Amplio Scrum is an approach for a team to deliver value quickly by avoiding the creation of waste and working on things of little importance. Its description is patterned after Scrum to take advantage of what people already know about Scrum. This enables a quick transition for those doing Scrum to an improved method. It includes the Scrum Quick Start with Amplio if they want to start quickly with something that looks like Scrum.

Amplio Scrum overcomes three major impediments to a quick, effective Scrum adoption. These are:

• Requiring people to "follow to understand" instead of providing understanding upfront.
• Being immutable, which means that many better practices for a team's situation won't be used
• Being purposefully incomplete instead of providing practices in the form of Alexandrian patterns. The intention is not to make people recreate what is known but to avoid overloading them.

Benefits of Amplio Scrum

Amplio Scrum enables as simple a start to the team as Scrum that is more fit for purpose and understandable. This avoids resistance and results in quick improvement.

Amplio Scrum provides a configurable framework which has the advantages of:

• Giving the team and those working with the team clarity on everyone’s responsibilities and work methods
• Adjusts as people’s needs and understanding change

Amplio Scrum enables teams to work effectively together when fully cross-functional teams either don’t exist or are inappropriate. It does this by guiding how teams can work together.

Provides both a sprint-based model like Scrum or a one-day timeboxing approach similar to Kanban. This enables the team’s workflow to be appropriate to the type of work they do and their culture

Enables teams to adjust how they work with minimal experimentation

Provides a method to determine which practice to use for a team’s particular situation.

The above is accomplished by

• providing theory to understand what leads to improvement
• using this to overcome the constraint of being immutable
• providing Alexandrian patterns that guide how to create solutions for the team’s context without reinventing them.

How to Adopt Amplio Scrum

Amplio University’s Amplio Scrum Curriculum track is patterned after what’s listed in the ?What’s been learned in the 3 decades since the creation of Scrum post.

Only one person on the team needs to undergo this training since they can then interact with the team to create their fit-for-purpose working method. They guide the team in making the following decisions:

• Should sprints or one-day timeboxing be used?
• How do we work with other teams that we have dependencies on if we don’t have a cross-functional team
• Should we identify different classes of service with their corresponding service level agreements?

People need surprisingly little training when they understand the motivations for change and create a simple, fit-for-purpose workflow.

Amplio provides virtual collaboration boards to help make these decisions, as well as the PowerPoints used in Amplio University—all of which are license-free while you are enrolled in the university.

What it Costs to Adopt Amplio Scrum

From free to $995 for a six-month enrollment in Amplio University

No money but requiring more time approach

Join the free Amplio Community of Practice and attend live, one-hour sessions weekly.

Most of the concepts required are available:

• On Amplio University’s Curriculum Page
• On Success Engineering’s YouTube site
• From Al Shalloway’s and Paula Stewart’s book Being an Effective Value Coach: Leading by Creating Value
• From Al Shalloway’s online, in-process book, Amplio Team Development .

Little money, requiring less time, and going more deeply approach

Enroll in Amplio University for six months for only $995 .

Amplio University offers curricula covering more effective versions of Scrum, Kanban, Scrum @ Scale,?SAFe RTE, Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant,?and the PSM II. It also includes an advanced coaching workshop. Some participants take all of them, while others focus on only one track.

If the goal is to improve an already-running Scrum team, becoming an Amplio Scrum Coach requires attending about 20 hours of live sessions (or their recordings) over 2-3 months. The team can improve over this period by taking advantage of what’s been learned. This is an incremental approach to improvement.

An alternative method would be for someone trained in Scrum to review the same material for a week and then use the Scrum Quick Start with Amplio to get a team started.

Is there certification?

For $250, attendees of Amplio University may opt to become certified as Amplio Scrum Coaches. This requires self-analysis of the materials and a series of conversations to validate their understanding.

FAQs

Q: Why do we call it Amplio Scrum?

A: It’s not Scrum, so we honor the wishes of Scrum’s creators not to call it Scrum. However, we explain it in terms of Scrum to take advantage of what people know about Scrum.

Amplio Scrum is patterned after Scrum so it provides a path for those doing It's hard for people to invest in something and then abandon it (e.g., Scrum)I also want people to take advantage of what they are using.So this way, they can learn Amplio by building off what they know of Scrum.Amplio Team is my team-level approach. Amplio Scrum is a subset of it.

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