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[After you read this you may want to check out an updated posting to this cartoon at: http://www.implementingscrum.com/2012/01/04/scrummasters-feel-like-giving-up-sometimes/]

So.

A few weeks ago had someone in a class explain this. He was trained as an Antropologist — not a software developer.

Interesting dude. Really.

Let’s say your current organizational system is like a river flowing down stream.

How rough varies.

Introduce change.

Any change.

Just one.

Scrum for example (funny how that gets worked into this conversation, eh?).

Pretend that change is a boat (or canoe, as drawn!).

Insert a Chicken and Pig for some humor (smile).

Following along with me?

Now.

Paddle.

What happens when you stop paddling?

The river flushes you back down stream.

That’s the gist.

Easy brilliance.

Does this apply in your current situation?

If you are about to just embark on this journey, remember to always keep paddling!

Stop paddling and you have made a choice to give it up — and make room for something else to take its place.

Gotta run! Please send comments, questions, criticisms, ideas, or whatever here.

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3 Comments! to “Up The Creek. Without a Paddle.”

1. Implementing Scrum -- Scrum Blog -- Comic Strips and Blog Entries for Scrum, an Agile Software Development Technique. Says:
   April 21st, 2008 at 8:40 pm

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2. ScrumMaster - Organization Change Management Facilitator | Implementing Scrum Says:
   February 15th, 2011 at 3:01 pm

   [...] get things restarted here, I thought this would be an appropriate comic strip (originally posted as http://www.implementingscrum.com/2008/04/21/up-the-creek-without-a-paddle/ years [...]

3. John Quincy Says:
   November 15th, 2011 at 6:16 pm

   All projects succeed with Scrum. At least on paper. In the real world… not so much. I have been searching for the reason why any CIO would allow agile into his company in the first place, and I have finally found the answer:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvks70PD0Rs

   Although hilarious, this video is, without question, accurate.

   John

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