From the course: Enterprise Agile: Growing Scrum
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Questioning Larman's Laws
From the course: Enterprise Agile: Growing Scrum
Questioning Larman's Laws
- Les is based on this idea that if you put people in a dance studio and teach them how to dance, then at some point, they'll become great dancers. This exposes a serious flaw in Les. This idea is actually an open question. Can you change an organization's culture by just changing how they work? Remember Larmen's Law, culture follows structure. It implies that if you change how your team works, then the underlying culture will follow. Larmen bases this law in something called, the Vanguard method. Part of this method is the idea that you should never start by changing your organization's culture. Instead, you should focus on the way that people work and then their behavior will follow. This idea contradicts Edgar Schein's book, "Organizational Culture and Leadership." In it he writes, culture determines and limits strategy. In many ways, how your organization views the world will determine how they work. So should you…
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