Ken Schwaber - What comes after Scrum?

Scrum can be replaced or superseded by anything that also supports its underlying principles:

1. Self-organization – people doing complex work are much more effective organizing themselves and the work than someone who isn’t doing the work.

2. Bottom-up intelligence – figuring out how to do work is a management activity best performed by the people doing the work, since the work is unpredictable, with many twists and turns.

3. Empiricism – it is hard to plan what you don’t know, so we instead see what has been accomplished, and then figure out what to do next. We do this frequently to control risk and determine the best path to our goal.

4. Transparency – we periodically have to know what is actually happening to make effective empirical decisions.