RE: Mastering Scrum with Feminine Power

 This is an opinion on this article. 

At a first glance, I think it is great that the author is pushing for more females to pursue Scrum. It is quite reminiscent of the push within STEM for more female participation. However, closer inspection within this article seems to be more of a back-patting on Scrum with aesthetic Eastern laud. 

The article goes over the main premise of how women are fitting into a primarily male mold in the tech industry. She then summarizes that you need yin-yang, male-female components within the work structure, and how embracing the diversity is welcomed and productive in the SCRUM model. She later references Conway's Law, which bluntly put, says that the communication defines the product. (In this case, ratios of men:women influence the communication, and hence positively affect the product.) But to backtrack, I do agree that the tech field, in general, has a lot of men, and hence might be heavy on the male-dominated culture, so it is great to have more women to balance the work environment. 

From a purely written standpoint, a lot of this seems to be baloney. There aren't any concrete evidence, references, or data, and at best it is a motivational piece. While it has been stated that the tech industry is lacking women, SCRUM and project management itself has quite a lot of female representation. There has also been inconsistency between Yin-Yang and Ying-Yang, as well as cultural appropriation from having Chinese Yin-Yang characteristics later ascribed to Japanese samurais out of the blue. I am sure the author means well, but the writing has not done good service.  

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