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Want to hear a success story about how Scrum can be used outside of software? Then this article is for you! In this episode of our practitioner spotlight, we hear the story Joe Hardell, Group Leader of Learning & Job Mastery at Abbott Vascular, on how he is using Scrum to help improve the manufacture and quality of medical devices. This is important work and when you read Joe’s story, you can really see how Scrum is both impacting the people in the Team and the people who use these medical devices.
It is not often that people from outside of software attend a Certified ScrumMaster course, yet somehow Joe found a recent class I was offering in San Diego, it matched his schedule and he signed up. Joe has spent over twenty years in his industry, mostly focused on manufacturing, and last year became involved in Business Excellence (which is often how people in regulated industries refer to organizational and process improvement). As a result of this new position, Joe moved from a role of focusing mainly on equipment to enabling people to do their job better. From my perspective, what makes this story so exciting is that Joe saw Scrum as a solution to both these needs.