The Origins of the Daily Scrum
(Wisdom from Bob Warfield)
In the summer of 2019 I got in touch with O’Reilly Media about their ambition to add a book about Scrum to their “97 Things” series. Drained as I was after an engagement as Scrum Enterprise Coach at a large organization it was a great way to re-energize and practice some writing again. As the title of the series suggests, the idea was to publish 97 essays about Scrum, to be provided by people (‘experts’) from around the world. Having no other plans for that time being, I could completely focus on my work as curator: contacting people, collecting ideas for essays, reviewing potential essays, suggesting potential edits, ordering and categorizing the articles, reviewing the manuscript and the cover.
Ultimately, 69 people delivered one or more essays that made it into the book and O’Reilly published the result in May 2020, when I could proudly announce the availability of “97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know”.
Among the contributors was James Coplien. I had never spoken to or met James before but I remember him for responding very enthusiastically when I fearfully approached him. Much to my delight, he ended up…
