Digging the Big Visible

While I was at the Scrum Gathering a few weeks ago I had the good fortune to attend a presentation by the guys from Big Visible. George Schlitz and Giore Morein gave a presentation about their approach to analyzing and mapping the ScrumMaster’s relationship to project team members and stakeholders. The relationship maps they demonstrated were both impressive and controversial. Based on the real life experience of Scrum Masters who have worked on projects where they were successful for the client, but ultimately, were let go because of an erosion in the stakeholders’ appreciation for and understanding of their role. Their process for analyzing the connections and value systems of the various parties on a project might seem a little bit over the top to some, but for those of us who actually spend time sitting and trying to work out diagrams that demonstrate the influence each part of the team has on the other parts, it was both re-affirming and amazing.

Giore and George were kind enough to spend some time with me and I’ve posted the video here.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8958340598642509243&hl=en

If you’d like to learn more about Big Visible, please go here:
http://www.bigvisible.com/

Either way, these guys are definitely worth watching… very impressive.