SCRUM Project Management

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First presented in 1986 from two Japanese business experts as a methodology to increase speed and flexibility in product development, SCRUM was than developed in the early nineties from people like Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber to be used in Project Management for huge Software Projects  as an alternative to common methods like the waterfall model.

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Getting his Name from the Rugby sport where a Scrummage (short: SCRUM) is an attempt of a team to gain possession of the ball, today SCRUM is a great tool to be used for managing any kind of complex team projects in whatever sector of industry as well as a tool for driving operative improvements in productive areas.  

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Furthermore, SCRUM can help to lead interdisciplinary teams in a structured and self-determined way to reach project targets very quick while the team motivation is high. The only thing that is given by the Scrum Master are the higher goals to be reached. The team decides how to reach the goals.

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Several benefits by using SCRUM are:

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• The principal of SCRUM leads people to solve problems in a structured way by dividing big tasks in all his sub tasks to be solved step by step in the SCRUM Sprints.

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• SCRUM generates 100% transparency in all project activities and is a great tool to document and evidence project status. (Visual Management VM)

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• Communication problems as they are a common root cause for failures in projects become switched off

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• Scrum automatically request team members to take over responsibility for their tasks towards all other participants to not stop the flow of the project

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• Even if SCRUM let the team decide when topics become solved it guarantees a huge number of tasks being done in a short time due to high motivation of team members supported by the visual effect of the SCRUM board

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• The versatility of SCRUM

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Tecoma International has a great experience by establishing and driving SCRUM Projects in the role as SCRUM Master. We used SCRUM successful in industrial manufacturing background for example:

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• As a method to track and drive actions from the daily shopfloor meetings of a tier 2 supplier to perform significant improvements in all operative areas by involving an interdisciplinary SCRUM team (Production, Quality, Maintenance, Engineering, Materials)

 

• To improve and standardize manufacturing processes for an automotive tier 1 supplier with the result of significant process efficiency improvement

 

• To drive improvement of quality processes and reach accomplishment with IATF 16949 requirements for a tier 2 supplier

 

• To manage several machine renovation and maintenance projects along the production of a tier 2 supplier

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