First steps towards the Scrum Methodology were
taken in the year 1986, by 2 Japanese experts of commercial product development
- Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. They published an article - “New New
Product Development Game” in the Harvard Business Review. (Yes 2 News!)
Interestingly, the Total Quality Management
(TQM) came out of the manufacturing industry and so did Agile and Scrum.
Hirotaka and Ikujiro referred numerous use cases from the automotive and
printer manufacturing firms. And another striking similarity - the very evident
Japanese connection again!
Through their research they ascertained that –
small, self-organizing teams fed with clear objectives and when given the freedom to develop their own execution strategy
are proven to be highly successful in achieving their goals – quality products
and services!
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