User:Thomas Österheld/SCRUM

We all know that the best project managers in life are often people that even do not know that they do project management. All the mothers that run the most complex business in the world with overwhelming complexity, a bunch of external service providers, they do their job, daily, 100% reliable otherwise our world would break apart, kids would show up at school one year to laten, men wouldn't even show up a their jobs... It is most obvious that they are natural born scrum masters, and we are lucky they don't even know it and they haven't yet started to charge their customers. They do daily, weekly, monthly sprints, they have the best product owners, they form sprint teams like a 250.000 $ pro from top 10 dax companies. But why is this relevant for an wikipedia author and my writings here? Does experience in complex project management and knowledge of different methods helps for writing crystal clear articles? I would put it this way: Project management is often the problem, but not the solution. Even SCRUM bothers people with lots of "pro" vocabulary that makes it difficult to understand the key factors of successful project management. And the key factors are easy to understand and most trivial: If you have task that you can not do yourself talk to others that can help you. Get people that really want to help you and make sure everyone knows exactly what you want. Go ahead, make sure you have results within a week or two or at least after a month. Now both SCRUM but all the other "project management methods" are made to make money with expensive trainings - but the bottom line is: Experience is the most important thing. Often you are forced to pretend you are in method X though internally everyone knows this is outdated and you are on scrum, so a sophisticated project manager is always able to "translate" project languages, but every project management method tells you: Experience ist the key factor to success. Which brings us back to "scrum your life": If you are a real scrum master this boosts all your activities, every aspect of your live even in the most private areas. HR experts (I worked with Heidrick and Struggles and some other top ranking recruiters) carefully check the entire live of potential manager and do often ask fairly personal questions. Scared? A scrum master isn't and will give a crystal clear project retro in case of fails.