Scrum in a Nutshell Mark Levison [email protected] .

Scrum in a Nutshell

Mark [email protected]

http://www.notesfromatooluser.com

Problem

Late Buggy Change? Burn out

A Better Way

Iterative Communications Self Organizing Scrum

Origins

HBR - The New New Product Development Game – 1986

Fuji Chemicals

Elements of Scrum

Roles Artifacts Events

Scrum Master

Servant Leader Facilitator Roadblocks

Product Owner

Business Priorities Single Wringable neck

Team

Everyone Self Organising

Sprint

Short Time boxed

Planning Meeting

Stories Breakdown Time boxed

Daily Scrum/Standup

15 minutes (at most) 3 questions

Review

Inspection

Retrospective

Went Well? Went Poorly? Improve?

Product backlog – Travel Website

Sample Product Backlog As a user, I want to reserve a hotel room As a user, I want to cancel a reservation As a vacation planner, I want to see photos of

the hotels As a frequent flier, I want to rebook a past trip,

so that I save time booking Trips Stories are

Sprint Backlog

As a user, I want to reserve a hotel room Add hotel table to the database – 1 hr Write Ajax code to display reservation – 4 hrs Write code to enter reservation in the database –

4 hrs As a user, I want to cancel a reservation

Display the user’s current reservations – 4 hrs Add a cancel button next to each reservation – 1

hr ….

Burndown Chart

Advantages

Change Transparency Feedback Communication Teams

Who uses Scrum?

Microsoft, Sun, Sammy Studios, Siemens, CNA, State Farm, State Street Bank, Philips, BBC, IBM, SAIC, LMCO, APL, Ariba, Federal Reserve Bank, HP, Motorola, Nokia, TransUnion, IDX, Siemens Medical, Gestalt, Yahoo, Conchango, BMC, Lexis-Nexis, Bently Systems, Bose, CapitalOne,Federal Reserve Bank, ClearChannel, Xerox, Patient Keeper, British Telecom, PayPal, …

Top down/Bottom up

Action

Hostile Environment Start Mentor Tools

Further Reading

See my blog posting “Best Introductions” (http://www.notesfromatooluser.com)

Try ControlChaos (Ken’s site) Mountain Goat Software (Mike Cohn’s site) RallyDev ScrumAlliance

(http://www.scrumalliance.org/)