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Another Scrum Story
(for the beginner and the advanced)
The Scrum Beyond Software online open space event that happened for the second time in September 2022, a mind-boggling twelve years after its first edition in Arizona, US, lingers on. I have written about how a gathering of like-minded beautiful people of that size, provides for a unique sense of meaning (here), and about how it all made me revisit my own version of a definition for Scrum (here).
Today I am reminded of a classic story that is reputed to have happened one day at some Zen monastery in Japan. Some say it was at Eiheiji, the main convent of the Sōtō school. There is an alternative tradition that places the story in a Sufi zawiya somewhere in Anatolia, perhaps in Konya, with al-Rumi as a protagonist. Which shows how powerful stories often spring up in different parts of the world, quite independently from one another. Or how everything is interconnected and everything is continuously influencing everything else, which is the possibility preferred by many who tend to discount coincidence from reality.
