Agile, Scrum & Dr Deming

This 2-hour interactive session on Agile and Scrum is designed for students, early-career professionals, interns, and managers who want a practical, systems-thinking understanding of Agile—not just ceremonies and jargon. The class connects Scrum principles with Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s ideas, showing how concepts like continuous improvement, reducing variation, respect for people, and learning through feedback are deeply embedded in Agile thinking. Scrum is not a contradiction to Deming—it is a modern operationalization of his philosophy.

In this session, I will cover:

• Agile mindset vs. traditional project thinking

• Scrum roles, events, and artifacts (with real examples)

• Why empirical process control matters

• How Deming’s PDSA cycle maps to Sprint cycles

• Common Scrum failures and anti-patterns

Participants should come prepared with:

• Basic awareness of projects or team work

• An open mind to challenge command-and-control thinking

• One real problem they’ve seen in team delivery

The focus is clarity, thinking, and application—not certification cramming.