Mike Beedle
| Mike Beedle | |
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| Mike BeedleMike Beedle.jpg | |
| Born | 11 October 1962 |
| March 23, 2018 (aged 55)March 23, 2018 (aged 55) | |
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| Known for | Co-author of Agile Manifesto |
| 🌐 Website | enterprisescrum |
Mike Beedle was an American theoretical physicist turned software engineer who was a co-author of the Agile Manifesto [1] .
He was the author of the first book and earliest papers about Scrum.[2] Later he coined the term "Enterprise Scrum"[3], developed his ideas into a canvases-based approach, and promoted Enterprise Scrum as a framework for scaling the practices and benefits of Scrum across whole organizations.
Mike Beedle has contributed to thousands of software products for more than 20 years, and has used, recommended, and guided others to implement Scrum since 1995.
Scrum
He was the second adopter of Scrum, and contributed to the framework development by implementing into his companies and coaching other organizations in the same direction.
The main idea behind Scrum was to create a team that would resemble artificial life, a robot, or an adaptive system, that would adapt and learn through “social intelligence”. Mike Beedle had a Ph. D. in Physics, and his master’s thesis was about chaotic and non-linear systems. Joining this two concepts was what allowed Ken Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland and Mike Beedle to point about "creating a team at the edge of chaos". Both directions pointed to the same end game: creating a hyper-productive team that worked as an adaptive system at the edge of chaos through patterns.
In 2001, Beedle worked with Ken Schwaber to describe the method in the book, Agile Software Development with Scrum.[4] Scrum's approach to planning and managing product development involves bringing decision-making authority to the level of operation properties and certainties.[5]
Agile Manifesto
In 2001 Beedle was one of the seventeen people who created and signed the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. He had been invited by Martin Fowler and Robert C. Martin because of his involvement in the early adoption of Scrum[6] and the organizational patterns community. Beedle was one of the first to follow in implementing Scrum after Jeff Sutherland, and collaborated on writing the Scrum patterns article, which was the second published paper on Scrum [7].
The Agile Uprising podcast has published an interview with Beedle from Snowbird ski resort, where he collaborated on the creation of the Agile Manifesto. Beedle recalled that he had proposed the term "Agile" which ultimately filtered through a process of selection with the other signatories:
"I can tell you I came up with that word (Agile) because I was familiar with the book Agile Competitors and Virtual Organisations. We had proposed Adaptive, Essential, Lean and Lightweight. We did not want to use Adaptive because Jim Heisman had given this to one of his works. Essential sounded overly proud. Lean had already been taken. Nobody wanted to be a lightweight. We did this late in the second day and it took only a few minutes to decide on this." [8]
Enterprise Scrum
Mike Beedle designed Enterprise Scrum[9] as a framework designed to apply Scrum to the entire organization and focused on the balance between key survival variables like: profit, revenue, lowering costs, operational efficiency, customer satisfaction and "doing things right through the right processes”. It is based on the concept of "Ikigai" to balance things out: 1) customer satisfaction, 2) employee happiness, 3) profits, and 4) purpose in the world.
It is componed by "startup management techniques" like:
- Lean Startup
- Blue Ocean Strategy
- Beyond Budgeting
- Business Model Generation
- Value Proposition Design
- Exponential Organizations
- Management 3.0
Mike Beedle’s Enterprise Scrum approach can “agilize” an entire company or organization, or any level of management or business unit in a company or organization. Enterprise Scrum offers a way to agilize and entire company from top to bottom (hierarchy), or from “side to side” (collaboration), or even in subsumption (dependent knowledge levels), but always with the constraint that everything must remain agile at all levels, or for all organizations involved, regardless of its size, purpose, or evolutionary step. As such Enterprise Scrum equally agilizes any level of management from C-level executive levels, through all levels of middle management, and down to the program and project; or equivalently, it can agilize startups, medium size companies with product and services portfolios, with one or more customer segments, all the way to agilizing business units and business unit portfolios.
On his own words: "The focus of Enterprise Scrum is on reinventing the company itself, or any part of it, with all of its business units, customer segments, business models, processes, products, and services. Enterprise Scrum means Scrum applied to the Enterprise as a whole, so it means continuously reinventing, improving and adapting the company and everything it does."
Contributions to Agile and Scrum Worlds
His ideas about how to optimize a team in front of chaos, evolved from his personal research at University, later contributed to Agile Manifesto conception, and during his entire professional life continuously evolving and improving Agile approaches to the entire organization, and sharing all this knowledge around the World by participating in every kind of Agile events.
Mike Beedle and his companies have introduced Scrum, Enterprise Scrum and Business Agility, to tens of thousands of people and thousands of companies[10], providing training, consulting, mentoring, and coaching. He is the creator of the Enterprise Scrum framework and was the first CEO to manage an entire company in an Agile way using Enterprise Scrum. He was a keynote speaker at countless Agile and Scrum conferences world-wide.
Works
- SCRUM: An extension pattern language for hyperproductive software development (the second published paper on Scrum) [11].
- Schwaber, Ken (1 February 2004). Agile Project Management with Scrum. Microsoft Press. ISBN 978-0-7356-1993-7. Search this book on
- Schwaber, Ken; Beedle, Mike (18 February 2002). Agile Software Development with Scrum. Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-067634-4. Search this book on
Death
Beedle was killed in Chicago in an apparent robbery.[12]
After his death, Scrum creator Jeff Sutherland posted, "The Scrum and Agile community lost a giant this weekend. Mike Beedle was a close friend and inspiration to many of us."[13] The Scrum Alliance said, "Mike and his companies have introduced Scrum, Enterprise Scrum and Business Agility, to tens of thousands of people and thousands of companies, providing training, consulting, mentoring, and coaching. He is the creator of the Enterprise Scrum framework and was the first CEO to manage an entire company in an Agile way using Enterprise Scrum. He was a keynote speaker at countless Agile and Scrum conferences world-wide." [14]
References
- ↑ "Authors". The Agile Manifesto. 2001. Archived from the original on June 18, 2014. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
- ↑ James A. Highsmith (2002). Agile Software Development Ecosystems. Addison-Wesley Professional. p. 105. ISBN 9780201760439. Search this book on
- ↑ Beedle, Mike. "Enterprise Scrum".
- ↑ Schwaber, Ken; Beedle, Mike (2002). Agile software development with Scrum. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-067634-9. Search this book on
- ↑ Schwaber, Ken (February 1, 2004). Agile Project Management with Scrum. Microsoft Press. ISBN 978-0-7356-1993-7. Search this book on
- ↑ Beedle, Mike. "Mike Beedle contribution".
- ↑ Beedle, Mike. "Mike Beedle Paper about Scrum" (PDF).
- ↑ Beedle, Mike. "Mike Beedle, Agile as a Name".
- ↑ Beedle, Mike. "Enterprise Scrum".
- ↑ Beedle, Mike. "Contribution".
- ↑ Beedle, Mike. "Mike Beedle Paper about Scrum" (PDF).
- ↑ Schulte, Sarah (6 April 2018). "Man charged in fatal stabbing of suburban CEO Mike Beedle in River North denied bond". Chicago: ABC7. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
- ↑ "In Memory of Mike Beedle - Scrum Inc". Scrum Inc. 2018-03-26. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
- ↑ "Scrum Alliance - Tragic Loss in the Scrum Community". scrumalliance.org. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
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