Is scrum fit for small organisation? [closed]

Answer 1

There are certainly some aspects of scrum that only apply to large teams but it can work in smaller teams too.

Like many things, it's a case of just taking what works for your company or team rather than blindly following all of it because "that's what you do".

I've seen it work very successfully with 1 developer and a 3 week budget just by cutting it down and adjusting it to only the ideas that are relevant to that size project. Not sure if that still counts as scrum but it worked.

Ultimately, any project management plan is better than none and the sooner you realise there is a problem the less impact it will have.

Answer 2

You can even do scrum alone, it's called "Solo Scrum".

Answer 3

Yes, but...

A problem I've encountered with Scrum in a small organization, is that the Product Owner was frequently unavailable (due to having lots of other responsibilities as well).

Needless to say, this can severely affect your agility. If you want to apply Scrum in such a situation, be sure to clearly communicate that the role of Product Owner is a time-consuming one.

Answer 4

Scrum is best suited for a small organization because of the following reasons:

1. There is not much mindset of a command and control to change.
2. Easier and more informal discussions between scrum team and the product owner.
3. There are not many well defined silos of Development team, Documentation team, QA team, etc. So, it is easier to form a team from people working on a product and get them going.
4. Not many prior processes in place which might hinder setting up the Scrum process.
5. Small organizations do not typically have the overheads of creating huge reports for progress reporting to senior management. You can just invite them to see the burn down on the wall whenever they want.

I guess these are enough reasons. Take it up in your organization.

Just make sure to have someone who knows the process well to implement it for you. Also, good to get a coach for the first Sprint.

Answer 5

Two best practices of Scrum are :

• Grouping your staff in small teams.

• Keeping communication quick and efficient (especially meetings).

So yeah, definitely, Scrum fit a small organization. In fact, as a small organization, you need less REorganization to start applying scrum !

Answer 6

No problem. My experience is that even large company decides to move to an agile (scrum) they are starting with Scrum in small team - as "a proof of concept".

For example, we started as 2 developers and moved to Scrum with more than 20 developers, 4 teams and 3 separated projects.