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Yaruki - Development Methodology
Yaruki is the Japanese word for "Motivation" and as such is name given to a software delivery methodology in the Enterprise Agile space focusing on strategic alignment in software development. Yaruki is based on the popular Scrum methodology invented by Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber, widely used in software development. Yaruki does not modify Scrum in any way, but details how it might be applied strategically in organisations at levels above the software delivery teams.

Scrum consists of two synchronised processes:

1) Build the right product at the right time 2) Build the right product in the right way.

Yaruki extends the level of detail around the first of these two and focusses on the commercial implications. This is particularly notable by its inclusion of the bank manager as a core scrum role and its extensive use of use of iterative ROI & NPV calculations. Yaruki promotes a culture of monetizing everything including technical debt, rework, flexibility and time to market and uses asset value as the lowest common denominator across all decision making.

At a high level Yaruki attempts to tightly couple processes on the engineering shop floor to the world of strategic business management. As such it includes Product Management, Programme Management and Accountancy disciplines and calls upon Six Sigma, Balanced Scorecards and Lean methodologies.

Yaruki - Development Methodology
Yaruki is the name given to a spec