Implementing Scrum in Government. A presentation about an 18 month Enterprise project using Scrum and other Agile software development techniques. The team faced many challenges, both on the technical and teamwork fronts, but by the end emerged with a great product and a very high performing team.

1. Scrum in Wonderland Implementing Scrum in Government CoastNerds Group Presentation September 2010

2. What are we going to talk about

3. Waterfall

4. Industry Report Card Source: Standish Group Report 2004

5. Requirements use in system Utility of requirement Always used 7% Often used 13% Sometimes used 16% Seldom used 19% Never used 45% Source: Standish Group study, 2002.

6. Agile Manifesto Individuals and interactions That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: processes and tools Working software comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration contract negotiation Responding to change following a plan over over over over

7. Scrum

8. Scrum

9. Roles

10. Ceremonies

11. Release Planning

12. Sprint Planning

13. Daily Scrums What did I do yesterday? What am I going to do today? What is stopping me achieve this?

14. Sprint Review

15. Retrospective

16. Ceremonies Release Plan

17. Release! Release! Release! Release! Release! Sprinting

18. Artifacts

19. Status

20. In a nutshell…. Source: scrumforteamsystem.com

21. The Project

24. The Facts Trouble Trouble Lines of Code = 106,000 Total Bugs Raised = 103 Bug Rate = 0.1% Industry Standard = 1.5 – 5% One Line Test Code per One Line Production Code. Unit Test Coverage = 75% 14 People 18 Months

25. Team Values

26. Evolution Early Middle Late 1 Month Sprints 2 Week Sprints 2 Week Sprints Hour Long Stand-up 15 Minute Stand-up 15 Minute Stand-up 3 Questions Done But Done Done Done Done Done Manual Builds Continual Integration Automate Everything Manual Deployment Scripted Deployment One-click Deployment Poor Estimation Too Much Detail in Estimates Concentrate on Relative Estimates Poor Visibility of Progress Task Boards Whiteboards for Everything Separation Consolidated on Same floor Co-location

29. Physical Space

30. Large to Small Teams

32. Feedback Business Technical Internal External “ Team pulled together” “ Can do everything in AMS” “ Fast turnaround” Appreciated opportunity to be involved from the beginning “… use a bit less process…” “… don’t be afraid to make mistakes…” “ ...avoid constraining people…scrum is based on trust...” “ Congratulations, you have one of the few hyperproductive teams in the world. Most companies will not remove their impediments to achieve this.” “ Team is technically awesome” “… great to see so many unit tests…” “… don’t use Entity Framework v1..”