scrum overview

Scrum Overview

Marko Gargenta, Marakana

Traditional WaterfallSupremely logical

...unfortunately humans are involved

Source: Wikipedia

The Unpredictable

Source: Jens Østergaard

Keep it Lean

Source: Jens Østergaard

History of Scrum

Source: The Working Group

What Scrum is and isn’tScrum Is Scrum is NOT

Agile & Lean Undisciplined

Product Management Project Management

Easy to Understand Trivial to Implement

Human-focused Process-focused

Value-focused Productivity-focused

About learning (kaizen) About final goal

About people About tools

Scrum Diagram

Scrum Breakdown

Roles

Product Owner

ScrumMaster

The Team

Meetings

Sprint Planning

Daily Scrum

Spring Review

Lists

Product Backlog

Sprint Backlog

Impediments

Three Roles

Product Owner The Team ScrumMaster

• Product vision

• Features

• P&L responsibility

• Self-organizing

• Cross-functional

• True Pigs

• Team servant

• Enforces Scrum

• Removes impediments

Three MeetingsSprint Planning Daily Scrum Sprint Review

Product owner and team review Product Backlog.

Team analyzes tasks involved and creates Sprint Backlog.

Team commits to Product Owner.

What did you get done yesterday?

What will you do today?

What impediments stand in your way?

Presented by Team to Product Owner at end of Sprint.

Must represent potentially shippable product.

Three ListsProduct Backlog Sprint Backlog Impediment List

List of functionality.Ordered and estimated.

Anyone can contribute.

Fosters communication.

List of PBIs team committed for the current Sprint.

Grouped in: To-Do, In Progress, and Done.

Maintained by ScrumMaster.

Open, visible, honest.

Updated daily.

Sprint Backlog

Source: Eclipse.org

Burn-down Chart

Source: Wikipedia

Scrum is simple...implementing Scrum is not

Not a Silver Bullet

Happier People

Source: Jens Østergaard

Thank you!

Marko Gargenta, Marakana Inc.