Martin Berg is an experienced coach and organizational change manager. He has been helping organizations how to improve their way of working within agile since 2007. On top of his keen interest in both people and interactions, he makes use of his drawing and illustration skills to make points that sometimes might be hard to understand without them. Examples of this are his illustration of the Cynefin framework; his comics illustrate different work-related aspects. All can be found at vige.se.

David Symhoven has been working as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach for over 5 years. Currently, he is working as an organizational designer in a young consultancy. He is also a podcaster who answers questions from the agile community and he helps organizations in adopting agile ways of working with training and coaching.

Title of presentation: Why Scrum Fails You Again and Again. A New Perspective!

There is a misunderstanding about Scrum, even in the Scrum Guide it is stated: "Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems". But from a complexity theory point of view, that is wrong! This misconception, however, is the reason for a lot of trouble. As the world gets more and more complex, we need to work smarter and smarter, but is Scrum really the best way to solve complex problems? We take you on the journey of some of the most frequent symptoms when using Scrum, what the potential causes are, and some remedies to help fix them instead of the symptoms. Management and Devs are welcome alike.