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Lightening Talk: definition of ready
1. Definition of READY
When are you able to start?
Agile Eastern Europe 2011, Kiev,
September 2011
Felix Rüssel
2. Creating Value & Problem in Sprints
How Value is created Usual Problems in Sprints
Understand WHY and No clear description, criteria,
goals
WHAT to do
Not possble to test/evaluate if
Have a clue HOW it be can goal has been met
It CAN be done (READY!) Missing Dates
(suprise!surpise!)
It is being DONE
It is really DONE Risiks unknown
Dependencies: Teams, external
And it is required stakeholders, technical
constrains, …
So it creates Value Owner (business sponsor)
unknown
3. READY & DONE on the Scrum Board
Sprint Backlog
READY
DONE
Committed
Sprint Acceptance
Planning
Development Reviewed Testing (PO) Release
4. READY & DONE
impediment
READY
DONE
Incre
PBL DoR SBL IBL DoD ment
5. READY as Quality Gate
READY as pre-condition for „Hyperproductivity“
Responsible: Product Owner
May delegate work to make stories READY
Team: Has right during Planning to refuse to commit
on stories that are not READY
Scrum Master enforces rules
Helps PO to increase the rate of READY stories
Scrum Master interferes when non-READY stories are discussed in
a wild manner.
6. How Product Backlog should look like
Current Sprint
(Stories, Tasks)
READY
(Stories)
Preparing
(Epics -> Stories)
NEW
(Ideas, Epics, Themes)
7. How it becomes READY
Story
Template
Add Details
Sprint Backlog
READY
Committed
Discuss! Discuss! Discuss! Sprint
Planning
Story
Epic
Story
Story Story
Story
Story
Story
Details Details Details
Details, Details, Details
8. Results & Rate of Adoption
Impact of READY on effort / Definition of Ready / READY State
variance Discussion started on conferences:
Beginnig 2009
Adoption rate still very low
Results of a small research
Mailinglist „scrumdevelopment“
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumd
evelopment
„definition of done“: 1001
„definition of ready“: 6
„ready state“: 14
Source:
http://agile2009.org/files/session_pdfs/Going%20from%20Goo
d%20to%20Great%20with%20Scrum%20Session.PDF
9. WHO?
Felix Rüssel
Consultant for agile Methods, project management and
virtual teams
www.agile-rescue.com
Nearshore Scrum Teams
www.agile-nearshoring.com
Agile methods since 2004
German Blog (~2008): www.armerkater.de