Lightening Talk: definition of ready

Definition of READYWhen are you able to start? Agile Eastern Europe 2011, Kiev, September 2011 Felix Rüssel

Creating Value & Problem in SprintsHow 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

READY & DONE on the Scrum Board Sprint BacklogREADY DONE Committed Sprint Acceptance Planning Development Reviewed Testing (PO) Release

READY & DONE impediment READY DONE IncrePBL DoR SBL IBL DoD ment

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.

How Product Backlog should look like Current Sprint (Stories, Tasks) READY (Stories) Preparing (Epics -> Stories) NEW (Ideas, Epics, Themes)

How it becomes READY Story Template Add Details Sprint Backlog READY Committed Discuss! Discuss! Discuss! Sprint Planning Story Epic Story Story Story Story Story StoryDetails Details Details Details, Details, Details

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“: 14Source:http://agile2009.org/files/session_pdfs/Going%20from%20Good%20to%20Great%20with%20Scrum%20Session.PDF

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

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