Scrum In A Nutshell Final Mar 08

Mark Levison Copyright: Mark Levison www.notesfromatooluser 2005-2008

Problem
Late
Buggy
Change?
Burn out
Copyright: Mark Levison www.notesfromatooluser 2005-2008

A Better Way
Iterative
Communications
Self Organizing
Scrum

Origins
HBR - The New New Product Development Game – 1986
Product Development at: Fuji Chemicals and Honda

Elements of Scrum
Roles
Artifacts
Events

Scrum Master
Servant Leader
Facilitator/Mentor
Roadblocks
Quality

Product Owner
Business Priorities
Single Wringable neck

Team
Everyone
Self Organising

Sprint
Short
Time boxed

Planning Meeting
Stories
Breakdown
Time boxed
Wide Band Delphi
Estimation

Daily Scrum/Standup
15 minutes (at most)
3 questions

Review
Inspection
Timeboxed

Retrospective
Went Well?
Went Poorly?
Improve?
Timeboxed

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
… .

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
Start
Mentor
Engineering Best Practices

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/)

Scrum In A Nutshell Final Mar 08

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