{"id":19446,"date":"2025-07-07T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scrumacademy.nl\/coaching-consultancy\/cases\/naturalis\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T15:00:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:00:54","slug":"naturalis","status":"publish","type":"cases","link":"https:\/\/scrumacademy.nl\/en\/coaching-consultancy\/cases\/naturalis\/","title":{"rendered":"CASE: Naturalis. How do you Scrum a T-Rex?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Naturalis&#8217; Educational Development Department was created in 2014 from the merger of two departments: <\/b><b><i>Education<\/i><\/b><b> and <\/b><b><i>Information Services<\/i><\/b><b>. All the activities Naturalis offers to students and families thus came to live under one roof. Just in time, because major renovations were coming. In 2016 the T-Rex (named Trix) was due to arrive and in 2019 the new museum opened. The department was looking for a way to work efficiently, like Scrum, without losing creativity.     <\/b><\/p>\n<h3><b>Best Practices Approach<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To begin, there was a training session for the entire team. Energy was high everyone was ready to start. At the same time, there was a rushed feeling. How was that? Because there was also ad hoc work being done for other teams and departments. We reduced those tasks in collaboration and focused on days working on education around Trix. All the unnecessary        <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fluff<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  and noise we have removed. Focus! A good first step.  <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Rhythm and Sprints<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Working in a set rhythm with (partial) deliverables also took some getting used to. A 6-week period consisted of 3 <a href=\"https:\/\/scrumacademy.nl\/blog\/scrum-sprint-review-de-complete-uitleg\/\">sprints<\/a>:   <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2 weeks Design &amp; Concept, testing with target audience<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3 weeks Elaboration of Design and Concept, demo with end users<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1 week Reviews, process feedback<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1 week Rest week, final touches<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After each sprint, the next batch of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stakeholders<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  already on the doorstep to test proptypes. Think parents, children, teachers, elementary schools. Explicitly formed the    <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  now the time to learn and which part of the educational activity to improve and to implement that these improvements immediately. This in turn gave peace of mind towards the official opening, as products were completely finished, and not left hanging endlessly.   <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The creativity of the team to use Agile and Scrum to their liking is tremendous. As a result, the form of collaboration fit seamlessly into the world of all the team members at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalis.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Naturalis<\/a>. For example, having 1 yoke of a scrum board where team 1 worked from left to right on it and team 2 worked from right to left. This provided additional connection among the teams and very quick switching to align each other&#8217;s ideas and tasks.&#8221;   <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Concrete result:  <\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ready in time for Trix and the opening, thanks to Scrum and Agile<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Validated and tested exhibition with real users<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transparent team collaboration<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Partial deliveries made the team&#8217;s work very transparent to the rest of the organization<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you Scrum a T-Rex?<br \/>\nNaturalis&#8217; Educational Development Department was created in 2014 from the merger of two departments: Education and Information Services. 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