Scrum is an agile process most ordinarily utilized for product development, particularly software development. Scrum is a project the executives system that is pertinent to any extend with forceful cutoff times, complex necessities and a level of uniqueness. http://www.agileethos.com/training/introduction-to-scrum/

1. Organizational Barriers and
Impediments to
Agile Implementations
Darian Rashid
Agile Trainer and Coach
darian@agileethos.com
@darianrashid, @agileethos

3. Water-ations
Requirements
Iteration(s)
Design
Iteration(s)
Develop
Iteration(s)
Test
Iteration(s)

4. Module-Based Scrum Teams and
Horizontal Slices
GUI scrum team
Business Logic Scrum team
Database Scrum team
“How do I demo a driver?”
“As the system,
I’d like to manage my memory
so that my memory is managed”

5. Exercise
Functional (horizontal)
Teams
vs.
Feature(Vertical)Teams

6. Security Policies
“utkubmiT”

7. Department of Facilities
“Tear down
these cubes!”

8. Distributed Teams
“The sun never sets on our
development empire”

9. Exercise
Collocated Teams
vs.
Distributed Teams

10. No User-Acceptance Criteria
No Definition of Done

11. Multiple Backlogs And/Or Product
Owners For the Same Team

12. Product Owner Proxys (POPs)

13. Little or No Release Planning

14. PO Decisions Are Pushed to the
Devevelopment Team(s)
Hmmm…
Chinese or Italian
tonight?

15. Individual Evaluations and Incentives

16. Fear and Safety
• Fear of raising issues
• “The daily beatings”

17. Self-Organization Exercise
Setup
Manager tries to solve the problem
Team tries to solve the problem
themselves

18. Velocity Used to Compare Teams

19. Defects are Counted Toward Velocity

20. Multi-Tasking
PercentofTimeonTasks
# of tasks
1
2
3
4
5
Clark and Wheelwhright
Working on more than 1 or 2 tasks at the same time

21. Multi-Tasking Exercise
• Grab a piece of blank paper
• Create 3 columns
• Column 1: Numbers 1 through 10
• Column 2: Letters ‘a’ through ‘j’
• Column 3”: Roman numerals I through X
Exercise 1: Write across columns Exercise 2: Write down columns
1 a I 1 a I
2 b II 2 b II
3 c III 3 c III
Time
each
exercise

22. ScrumMasters Not Empowered

23. Part Time and Rotating “Admin”
ScrumMasters

24. Little or No Infrastructure

25. Manager == PO &&
Manager == SM &&
Manager == Technical Lead

26. Bottom-Up Deployment
“Scrum is a practice for developers”