Agile and learning

After just watched this interesting interview with Craig Larman on scaling Scrum I can’t resist to quote the following:

So, what I’m trying to say here is that through the Scrum model we set up
the organizational environment that creates the opportunities for learning,
which don’t exist in traditional organizations as well.

What I see here is that within traditional organization in functional team there is a little chance to learn from each other - or at best - only minor improvements on the same “well know” areas. In such context organization is particularly weak on some events like - for example - staff leaving: you lose the person and her knowledge (that is difficulty written off, it can be only “transmitted”).

In Scrum (and in agile more generally) there is a fertile environment to learn from each other: cross functional teams favor knowledge spreading and sharing.

A final remark from Craig Larman:

A combination of organic leaders demonstrating learning with an environment
that is designed to support learning, might provide the spark for people to
actually learn.