This Wednesday, namics will hold its first "Scrum Breakfast" - a talk and information exchange between CIOs, Strategic and Operational Project Managers. Today, I'd like to give you peak at what you can expect from the talks.

I started managing my first project with Scrum for namics just over a year ago, and the improvements in productivity, quality and customer satisfaction were dramatic. As tool for managing individual projects, Scrum gave us control over the devil's cross of Scope, Quality, Time and Effort.

You will come if you have either adopted Scrum in your team, want your company to adopt Scrum or are considering Scrum. We are here today to share information and experience about Scrum in the Enterprise. Should a company adopt Scrum and if so, how?

To answer this question, we'll look at three issues:

• How to decide whether your company needs Scrum?
• What is Scrum and how is it different from traditional methodologies?
• How to get Scrum deployed in an organization?

Does your company need Scrum?

This real question is, 'does your company need a significant change?' Are you having problems with profitability, declining market share, inability to develop competitive new products? Are you being overtaken by the competition? Is your company's core IT infrastructure becoming unmaintainable (or is it already)? Are you considering offshoring to cut costs?

Does any of that apply to you?

Scrum is Lean Production for Product Development. Actually, it is more than that. It is applicable to any process which creates new information, like products, software, or business processes.

When you use Scrum, you can extract the full potential of your staff, identify and eliminate hindrances to success, and focus your resources on goals which produce the maximum business value.

If your company is happy with its current status, competitiveness, agility, cost structure, etc., then there is no need to adopt Scrum. But come anyway and help us with the coffee and croissants.

For the rest of you, watch this space. Tomorrow, I'll talk about what makes Scrum different from other methodologies.

For Wednesday, please let us know you're coming, and I look forward to meeting you then. BTW - the talk is in German.