Scrum Maturity Model

A proposal on how to measure the scrum implementation level among different teams.

There is not any official mechanism to evaluate the effectiveness of the use of scrum in a team and is also difficult to compare the scrum adoptions among different teams.

The fact that most scrum teams take time to reach a good level of scrum implementation and this suggests that a maturity model could be a good approach to determining how mature a team is.

In this article, I am proposing a Scrum Maturity Model (SMM) which you can use or customize according to the needs of characteristics of your company or teams.

I have been working a few years in the software development industry and using scrum for at least the last 6 years, over these years I heard more than I would like the phrase “ — We are using scrum, but …” followed by things that some people would not believe.

And according to the scrum guide:

and

Scrum teams usually do not start mastering scrum at the beginning, instead, they learn with mistakes and successes until reach a desirable level of maturity, so it is sometimes unfair to say that a team is not really using scrum just because they are not following some aspects of the scrum that they really should.

Instead of that, we can define a maturity model in which the teams could look at it and measure the current maturity level based on specific parameters that the teams agreed to follow.

A team scrum maturity can vary depending on the country, culture, industry, technology, beyond many other aspects, because of that the maturity level must be customizable enough to be adaptable and make sense for the reality of the teams, but once defined, all teams should use the same model to ensure it works.

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