Dennis popov. scrum for drupal. drupal camp kyiv 2011

Scrum for BOND. How do we do this in a

geographically distributed teams.

Dennis [email protected]

14 Mar. 2011

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Agenda• Where we are• SCRUM What is it ? • How did it start with us ? • How our teams are organized ? • How do we do this? • Where should we aim at?• Bonus: Kanban

Where we are• From 1 to 35 within 12 months • 3 Drupal teams 2 mobile teams 1 magento • Procedures and processes• B.DK, BT.DK, AOK.DK, sporten.dk• Main dev power

This is not a shortened SCRUM course but... i will tell you

• What is is SCRUM about

• How do we use it• Share our best

practices and tweaks

SCRUM. What is it?

• A methodology for software project development

• Lets you focus on most important business values

• Business sets the priorities. Self organized team decides on the best technical way.

• Each sprint all parties interested can see real functioning product so to decide either to release it or continue improvements in the next sprint

SCRUM. What is it?

SCRUM. What is it?• Define teams

• Divide products by features

• Define business value

• Constantly optimize your process

• Do a release plan

SCRUM. What is it?

How did it start ?

• 2009 big company, dear colleagues

• 2010 path of transformation and savings

• 2010 Ukraine as the best combination for price, quality, sales

How did it start ?

• Right thinking. Like - minded persons

• Right procedures. Adjustments

• Right people. Interview, July 2010 first sprint

How our teams are organized

How our teams are organized

• Releases• Estimations• Planning• Retrospectives

How do we do this

• Daily scrum, sharp schedule• Overtimes are illegal• One task not more than 2 days (16 hours) • Importance instead of priority (importance can be

500 instead of priority 1)• Pool (15% of sprint time) for urgent issues • If you are sick you are in the sprints as a task!• One task one team member 1:1• Pare programming and discussions, workshops• New features and areas are documented• Same rules for everybody

How do we do this

How do we do this

• Tester tries to reproduce issue before estimation session starts

with testing

• Retrospective for distributed team

How do we do this with retrospectives

Where to aim

• Trust. That's nearly everything • Sense of Urgency• Good communications• Process understanding• Think out of the box

what else can i do ? • One change a a time• Constant improvements

What next ?

• What can i improve for the company i am working in?

• What out of that will i do first?

• When will i do it ?

Thank you for your attention!

questions ?

Dennis [email protected]@gmail.com

skype: celenia_dep

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