Scrum is an agile framework that emphasizes incremental deliveries, quality of product, continuous improvement, and discovering people's potential. It uses empiricism, self-organization, prioritization, rhythm, and collaboration. Key roles include the Product Owner who manages the product vision and backlog, the ScrumMaster who facilitates the process and removes impediments, and the cross-functional self-organizing Team. The sprint includes planning, daily standups, taskboards, reviews, and retrospectives to inspect and adapt the product and process. Benefits include faster time to market, engaged teams, and clear priorities.

1. Scrum:
What s In It for Me?
Prepared by Lisa Montaño

2. Agenda
 Overview of Agile and Scrum
 Scrum: Product Vision & Product Owner Role
 Scrum: Practices and ScrumMaster Role
 What s in it for me?
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3. Overview of Agile and Scrum

4. Overview of Agile and Scrum
Agile Manifesto
 Agile is a set of values:
 Individuals and interactions over processes and
tools
 Workingsoftware (Products) over
comprehensive documentation
 Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
 Responding to change over following a plan
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5. Overview of Agile and Scrum
12 Agile Principles
1 Highest priority is to satisfy the
customer through early and continuous
delivery of valuable software/products
2 Welcome changing requirements
3 Deliver working software (product)
frequently
4 Business people and developers must
work together daily throughout the
project
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6. Overview of Agile and Scrum
12 Agile Principles
5 Build projects around motivated
individuals
6 Most efficient and effective method of
conveying information is face-to-face
conversation
7 Working software (product) is the
primary measure of progress
8 Agile processes promote sustainable
development (maintain a constant pace
indefinitely)
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7. Overview of Agile and Scrum
12 Agile Principles
9 Continuous attention to technical
excellence and good design enhances agility
10 Simplicity (art of maximizing amount
of work not done) is essential
11 Best architectures, requirements, and
designs emerge from self-organizing teams
12 At regular intervals, team reflects on how
to become more effective, then fine-tunes
and adjusts
http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
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8. Overview of Agile and Scrum
What is Scrum?
 Scrum is an Agile framework
that supports lightweight
processes that emphasize:
 Incremental deliveries
 Quality of Product
 Continuous improvement
 Discovery of people s potential
 Scrum is simple to understand,
requires discipline in order to
be successful
 Scrum is not a methodology
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9. Overview of Agile and Scrum
Foundations of Scrum
 Empiricism
 Detailed up-front planning and defined processes are replaced
by just-in-time Inspect and Adapt cycles
 Self-Organization
 Small teams manage their own workload and organize
themselves around clear goals and constraints
 Prioritization
 Do the next right thing
 Rhythm
 Allows teams to avoid daily noise and focus on delivery
 Collaboration
 Leaders and customers work with the Team, rather than
directing them
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10. Overview of Agile and Scrum
CoreValues
 Transparency
 Everything about a project is visible to everyone
 Commitment
 Making realistic commitments
 Courage
 Have the courage to commit, to act, to be open and to
expect respect
 Focus
 Focus all of your efforts and skills on doing the work that you
have committed to doing
 Respect
 Respect and trust the different people who comprise a team10

11. Scrum: Product Vision and
Product Owner Role

12. Scrum: Vision and Product
ProductVision
 A goal to aspire to
 Can be
summarized in a
short statement of
intent
 Communicate it to
the team
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13. Scrum: Vision and Product
Role: ProductOwner
 ThoughtLeader and Visionary
 Drives the Product Vision (e.g. story Mapping)
 Prioritizes the Goals - User Stories
 Maintains the Product Backlog with the team
 Acceptsthe Working Product (on behalf of the
customer)
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14. Scrum: Practices and
ScrumMaster Role

15. Scrum: Sprint
Role: ScrumMaster
 Servant Leader
 Facilitates the Process
 Supports the Team
 Removes Organizational Impediments
 Socializes Scrum to Management
 Enables close collaboration across all roles and
functions
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16. Scrum: Sprint
Role: Team
 CrossFunctional
 5-9 Members
 SelfOrganizing
 Focused on meeting Commitments
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17. Role: Relationships
Product
Owner
Team Stakeholders
Scrum
Master
Diagram by Look Forward Consulting

18. Scrum Process Overview
Stakehol Daily Standup
ders 24 hrs
Team
Product Retrospective
Owner Potentially
Shippable
Product
Sprint length
1-4 weeks Stakeholders
Sprint Planning
Meeting Sprint Backlog
Team

19. Scrum: Sprint
Flow & Artifacts: Planning
 SprintPlanning meeting held prior to beginning of
each Sprint
 Duration and time-effort are fixed in any given
Sprint
is to have prioritized Sprint Backlog, broken
 Goal
down into tasks, that the Team can commit to
 During planning, Team commits to scope that can
be completed in the Sprint, taking into account the
Definition of Done
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20. Scrum: Sprint
Flow & Artifacts: DailyStandup
 Meetings held in same location, same time, every
day
 Timeboxed at 15minutes
 Encourages self-organization, rhythm, and
collaboration
 Not a status meeting
 Each team member speaks to:
 What did I accomplish in the last 24 hours?
 What do I plan to accomplish in the next 24 hours?
 Any impediments getting in the way of my work?
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21. Scrum: Sprint
Flow & Artifacts: Taskboard
 Active
visual indicator of
flow of work
 Should
be visible to
team members at all
times
 Should be kept current
 Encouragesself-
organization, and
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22. Scrum: Sprint
Flow & Artifacts: SprintReview
 Occurs at the end of each Sprint
 Inspect and Adapt the product (Empiricism)
 Theteam meets with the Product Owner (and
Stakeholders) to demonstrate the working
software from the Sprint
 Thisis a hands-on software demo (not a
PowerPoint) that usually requires some prep
beforehand
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23. Scrum: Sprint
Flow & Artifacts:
Retrospective
 Occurs at the end of each Sprint
 Inspect and Adapt the process (Empiricism)
 Teamand ScrumMaster meet to reflect on what
went well and what can be improved
 Toneof the meeting is that everyone did their best
and now look to how can we improve
 Retrospectives
must conclude with team
commitments to action
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24. What is in it for me?
{Customer}
 As a Customer, I want to be able to
 Have opportunity to provide feedback early
 Go to market faster with quality
 Faster return on investment
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25. What is in it for me?
{Leadership}
 As a Leader, I want
 To understand progress in terms of real progress
made on the product
 Better engaged & accountable team
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26. What is in it for me? {Team
Member}
 Who is a typical team member?
 As a team member, I want
 A sustainable pace
 Satisfaction of quality product delivered
 Clear Priority and less interruption during
development
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27. How do you learn Scrum? By
Doing!
 Apply a few practices at a time
 Understand the values and foundations
 Inspect and Adapt
 Experience the Joy of Doing Scrum
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28. How do you learn Scrum?
Experiential Training.
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29. User groups /Communities
 ALN – Agile Leadership Network
 Scrum Alliance – Scrum User Groups
 Online User Groups
Scrum Alliance
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30. Scrum Certifications
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31. Q&A
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32.  Scrum is a lightweight framework with a
simple set of rules, built on foundations and
values
 Scrumenables teams to discover their true
potential and deliver quality software that
adds business value
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33. Pay It Forward Trainings in US
• Hartford, CT- Nov 3, 2012 – Agile & Scrum Training
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35. Trainings in India & UK
• 1-Day Agile & Scrum in Action Workshop
• London – Nov 10
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36. Thank you !
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Contact Info
Lisa Montaño
lisa.montano@conscires.com
+1-949-444-8946
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