Chak De India Movie demonstrates the values of Scrum Team & Scrum Master – A Case Study

Chak De! India is a sports drama film in Hindi about field hockey in India. It’s the story of how the coach Kabir Khan train the team of 16 girls & inspire them to win the World Cup. In this paper we relate Kabir Khan the coach of Indian Hockey team to that of a Scrum Master & the 16 girls team as the Scrum Team and their single pointed aim to win the World Cup. Our objective behind writing this paper is to demonstrate how a self-motivated & self-organized team, lead by a coach acting as a change agent & motivator can create a winning team which then goes on to create a winning product (in this case winning the world cup). We draw parallels from the scenes in the movie with the best practices prescribed by the agile principles in the Scrum framework. We also demonstrate how the Scrum Master qualities are demonstrated in the movie by the coach Kabir Khan. The take away from this study is to be able to better understand the principles of Scrum which state that building a winning team automatically creates a winning product. Also examples from this paper can be used to teach agile principles during an agile training class with help of video clips from the movie.