This document discusses customizing the Scrum process for a startup company. It describes the author's experience being assigned the Product Owner and Scrum Master roles without previous Scrum experience. The author learned Scrum and implemented it in their own way for their company. The document then provides an overview of key Scrum concepts like sprints, product backlogs, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. It also discusses tools that can be used to support the Scrum process.

1. Customized Scrum Process
Abdul Karim
Software Engineer
Dhaka, Bangladesh

2. Startup first time in Scrum
• It is really very difficult to follow 100% of
scrum process in real life product/project
development.
• Did you face this issues ? I think most of you
will answer YES.
• So what we need to do is customize the scrum
in your own way.

3. • Management suddenly assigned me as
Product Owner and Scrum Master, but I do
not have previous experience in Scrum at all.
• My traditional process is estimate task and
make a schedule in Microsoft project plan.
• So I learn Scrum and start in my own way.

4. • I will first discuss about Scrum and then will
show you how I follow & implement in
practically .

6. Scrum in 100 words
• Scrum is an agile process that allows us to focus on
delivering the highest business value in the shortest time.
• It allows us to rapidly and repeatedly inspect actual working
software (every two weeks to one month).
• The business sets the priorities. Teams self-organize to
determine the best way to deliver the highest priority
features.
• Every two weeks to a month anyone can see real working
software and decide to release it as is or continue to
enhance it for another sprint.
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7. Putting it all together
This Slid is collected from Internet

8. What is Sprints?
• Scrum projects make progress in a series of
“sprints”
– Analogous to Extreme Programming iterations
• Typical duration is 2–4 weeks or a calendar
month at most
• A constant duration leads to a better rhythm
• Product is designed, coded, and tested during
the sprint

9. Sequential vs. overlapping
development
Requirements Design Code Test
Rather than doing all of
one thing at a time...
...Scrum teams do a little
of everything all the time
Source: “The New New Product Development Game” by Takeuchi
and Nonaka. Harvard Business Review, January 1986.

10. Product owner
• Define the features of the product
• Decide on release date and content
• Be responsible for the profitability of the
product (ROI)
• Prioritize features according to market value
• Adjust features and priority every iteration, as
needed
• Accept or reject work results

11. The ScrumMaster
• Represents management to the project
• Responsible for enacting Scrum values and
practices
• Removes impediments
• Ensure that the team is fully functional and
productive
• Enable close cooperation across all roles and
functions
• Shield the team from external interferences

12. The team
• Typically 5-9 people
• Cross-functional:
– Programmers, testers, user experience
designers, etc.
• Members should be full-time
• May be exceptions (e.g., database administrator)

13. The team
• Teams are self-organizing
– Ideally, no titles but rarely a possibility
• Membership should change only between
sprints

14. Team
Sprint planning meeting
capacity
Sprint prioritization
Product • Analyze and evaluate product Sprint
backlog backlog goal
• Select sprint goal
Business
conditions Sprint planning
• Decide how to achieve sprint goal
Current (design)
Sprint
product • Create sprint backlog (tasks) from backlog
product backlog items (user
stories / features)
Technology • Estimate sprint backlog in hours

15. Sprint planning
• Team selects items from the product backlog they
can commit to completing
• Sprint backlog is created
– Tasks are identified and each is estimated (1-16 hours)
– Collaboratively, not done alone by the ScrumMaster
• High-level design is considered
As a vacation planner, I want
to see photos of the hotels. Code the middle tier (8 hours)
Code the user interface (4)
Write test fixtures (4)
Code the foo class (6)
Update performance tests (4)

16. The daily scrum
• Parameters
– Daily
– 15-minutes
– Stand-up
• Not for problem solving
– Whole world is invited
– Only team members, ScrumMaster, product owner,
can talk
• Helps avoid other unnecessary meetings

17. Everyone answers 3 questions
1
What did you do yesterday?
2
What will you do today?
3
Is anything in your way?
• These are not status for the ScrumMaster
– They are commitments in front of peers

18. The sprint review
• Team presents what it accomplished during
the sprint
• Typically takes the form of a demo of new
features or underlying architecture
• Informal
– 2-hour prep time rule
– No slides
• Whole team participates
• Invite the world

19. Sprint retrospective
• Periodically take a look at what is and is not
working
• Typically 15–30 minutes
• Done after every sprint
• Whole team participates
– ScrumMaster
– Product owner
– Team
– Possibly customers and others

20. Start / Stop / Continue
• Whole team gathers and discusses what
they’d like to:
Start doing
Stop doing
This is just one
of many ways to Continue doing
do a sprint
retrospective.

21. Product backlog
• The requirements
• A list of all desired work on
the project
• Ideally expressed such that
each item has value to the
users or customers of the
product
• Prioritized by the product
owner
• Reprioritized at the start of
This is the each sprint
product backlog

22. A sample product backlog
Backlog item Estimate
Allow a guest to make a reservation 3
As a guest, I want to cancel a
5
reservation.
As a guest, I want to change the dates of
3
a reservation.
As a hotel employee, I can run RevPAR
8
reports (revenue-per-available-room)
Improve exception handling 8
... 30
... 50

23. The sprint goal
• A short statement of what the work will be
focused on during the sprint
Life Sciences
Support features necessary for
Database Application population genetics studies.
Make the application run on SQL
Server in addition to Oracle.
Financial services
Support more technical indicators
than company ABC with real-
time, streaming data.

24. Managing the sprint backlog
• Individuals sign up for work of their own choosing
– Work is never assigned
• Estimated work remaining is updated daily

25. Managing the sprint backlog
• Any team member can add, delete or change the
sprint backlog
• Work for the sprint emerges
• If work is unclear, define a sprint backlog item with
a larger amount of time and break it down later
• Update work remaining as more becomes known

26. A sprint backlog
Tasks Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri
Code the user interface 8 4 8
Code the middle tier 16 12 10 4
Test the middle tier 8 16 16 11 8
Write online help 12
Write the foo class 8 8 8 8 8
Add error logging 8 4

27. A sprint burndown chart
Hours

28. Tasks Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri
Code the user interface 8 4 8
Code the middle tier 16 12 10 7
Test the middle tier 8 16 16 11 8
Write online help 12
50
40
30
20
10
Hours
0
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

29. Scalability
• Typical individual team is 7 ± 2 people
– Scalability comes from teams of teams
• Factors in scaling
– Type of application
– Team size
– Team dispersion
– Project duration
• Scrum has been used on multiple 500+ person
projects

30. Scrum Practices Tools
• eScrum Template (MSF)
• iceScrum (opensource)

31. Microsoft eScrum Template
• Released on 6/13/07 (and again on 7/11/07) &
can feel a bit rough at times
• 1.1 released 8/9/2008 for TFS2008
– Much improved install experience over 1.0
• But web UI is compelling in that it:
– Is easier for non-VS.NET users to grasp
– Provides reasonable flow to facilitate Scrum sprint-
planning (as opposed to TFS Web Access)
• Web UI allows parallel maintenance of Scrum-
based work items with VS.NET/Team Explorer

32. Microsoft eScrum Template
• Released on 6/13/07 (and again on 7/11/07) &
can feel a bit rough at times
• 1.1 released 8/9/2008 for TFS2008
– Much improved install experience over 1.0
• But web UI is compelling in that it:
– Is easier for non-VS.NET users to grasp
– Provides reasonable flow to facilitate Scrum sprint-
planning (as opposed to TFS Web Access)
• Web UI allows parallel maintenance of Scrum-
based work items with VS.NET/Team Explorer

33. Microsoft eScrum Template
• Microsoft will continue to invest in MSF for
Agile/CMMI – the MSF team continues to
believe there is value they can bring with that
process
– Expect that MSF will more formally integrate
engineering disciplines, especially those
supported by Team System tooling
• eScrum is not currently supported (as MSF
would be) – it is offered “as is”

34. eScrum – what do you get?
• Bugs are distinct from Sprint Tasks
(though they may be linked)
• No process guidance as such. For
scrum reference, see:
http://scrumforteamsystem.com
• See
http://yourserver/eScrum/help/helpwindow.aspx for
detail on using eScrum itself
• Sharepoint Portal has configured lists
for things like risks, product owner
to-dos, etc.

35. iceScrum open source Tools for scrum
practices
• http://www.icescrum.org
• http://www.icescrum.org/en/screenshots-en/

36. iceScrum

37. eScrum – what do you get?

38. Do we really need to follow Scrum?
• Now we will discuss about advantages and
disadvantages of scrum, because we must
know weather we need to follow scrum for my
project and what is the impact of Scrum in
Project Deadline.

39. Scrum Advantages
• Agile scrum helps the company in saving time and money.
• Scrum methodology enables project’s where the business
requirements documentation is hard to quantify to be successfully
developed.
• Fast moving, cutting edge developments can be quickly coded and
tested using this method, as a mistake can be easily rectified.
• It is a lightly controlled method which insists on frequent updating
of the progress in work through regular meetings. Thus there is
clear visibility of the project development.
• Like any other agile methodology, this is also iterative in nature. It
requires continuous feedback from the user.
• Due to short sprints and constant feedback, it becomes easier to
cope with the changes.

40. Scrum Advantages
• Daily meetings make it possible to measure individual productivity.
This leads to the improvement in the productivity of each of the
team members.
• Issues are identified well in advance through the daily meetings and
hence can be resolved in speedily
• It is easier to deliver a quality product in a scheduled time.
• Agile Scrum can work with any technology/ programming language
but is particularly useful for fast moving web 2.0 or new media
projects.
• The overhead cost in terms of process and management is minimal
thus leading to a quicker, cheaper result.
• In a nutshell this means that you can get development started
fast, but with the caveat that the project scope statement is
"flexible" and not fully defined. Hence this can be one of the
major causes of scope creep if not managed properly.

41. Scrum Disadvantages
• Agile Scrum is one of the leading causes of scope
creep because unless there is a definite end
date, the project management stakeholders will be
tempted to keep demanding new functionality is
delivered.
• If a task is not well defined, estimating project
costs and time will not be accurate. In such a case, the
task can be spread over several sprints.
• If the team members are not committed, the project
will either never complete or fail.
• It is good for small, fast moving projects as it works
well only with small team.

42. Scrum Disadvantages
• This methodology needs experienced team members only.
If the team consists of people who are novices, the project
cannot be completed in time.
• Scrum works well when the Scrum Master trusts the team
they are managing. If they practice too strict control over
the team members, it can be extremely frustrating for
them, leading to demoralisation and the failure of the
project.
• If any of the team members leave during a development it
can have a huge inverse effect on the project development
• Project quality management is hard to implement and
quantify unless the test team are able to conduct
regression testing after each sprint.

43. • I used icescrum because of its license issue.
• It is really helpful for task tracking and see all
task status in at a glance
• Deployment is so easy.

44. useful links
• www.scrumalliance.org
• www.controlchaos.com
• scrumdevelopment@yahoogroups.com

45. • This are my customized Idea for my project .
• Some slides are collected from internet 
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