ATB2014 Presentation

1. ACTION BASED SCRUM
INSTEAD OF BEING PRESCRIPTIVE:
Krishnamurty VG Pammi
Agile Coach
IVY Comptech, Hyderabad
08-Nov-2014

2. Team Misses
Sprint Goals
Ineffective Scrum Events
Issues with Planning
issues with Collaboration
Prescriptive Scrum – Action missing
Issues with Development
issues with Testing

3. Humane Touched Scrum Mastering Cycle
Working Agreements Adhered:
Scrum Master reflects Servant
Leadership and helps team to
adhere to Working agreements
Scrum Master prepares for
each event:
(1) Expected Outcome
(2) Challenges that may
surface
(3) Metrics available
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Deals the Scrum events creatively
(1) Time Boxed events
(2) Innovative Facilitation techniques
(3) Participation & Involvement through
creative techniques
(4) Closing prior action items
Humane touched Scrum
Master notifies team about
(1) Scrum Events in advance
(2) Available information
(3) Expected Deliverables
(4) What are the positive
behaviors
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4. Humane Touched Scrum Mastering Cycle
Helps Product Owner
Community to effectively set
Vision, Roadmap, Release
Planning and thereby preparing for
Sprint Planning events.
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Helps Team forecast their Sprint
backlog
(1) Team’s buy-in achieved
(2) Only DOR ready stories accepted
(3) Schedule Buffers to cater impediments
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Helps Team perform
Effective Estimation
through Work Breakdown
Structure - Activity detailing
– sequencing- estimating
the size
Coaches the Team on How to
Write effective User Stories
- Prioritization Techniques
- Set Upstream / Downstream
Dependencies

5. Humane Touched Scrum Mastering Cycle
Metrics are made available to
the team through information
Radiators
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Tools are referred in the standup
meetings so that Burn Down and Burn Up
charts are kept current
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Helps achieve shared team
goal through Collective
Code ownership, Simple
Design
Helps Team Improve
productivity through
- Pair Programming
- Refactoring
- Automation
- Test Driven Design

6. Humane Touched Scrum Mastering Cycle
Small Teams are ensured
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Real Customer is involved in
prioritizing the stories
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Cross Functional Teams are
encouraged
Self-Managed Team are
nurtured

7. Humane Touched Scrum Mastering Cycle
Acceptance Tests – Real end
customer is involved in writing
these acceptance test cases
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Non Functional Testing - – Focus is
given to Stress testing and
Performance optimization
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Test First mindset and
promote unit tests to be
designed in collaboration
Help Team implement adhoc
Testing to detect test-wholes

8. A Humane touched
scrum mastering can turn team’s odds towards
positive outcomes