Broken product ownership, ScrumButt and how to fight "Dead Zone" of requirements flow in distributed projects.

2. Agile at Luxoft
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3. Agile as a Silver Bullet

4. Simple Rulebook
PO
Product Owner
Product
Backlog
(Features)
Sprint
Planning
Part 1
(What?)
2-4 h
Sprint
Planning
Part 2
(How?)
2-4 h
Sprint
Backlog
(Tasks)
Team
SM
Daily Scrum
15 min
Product Backlog
Refinement
5-10% of Sprint
1 Day
2-4 weeks
Sprint
Potentially Shippable
Product Increment
Sprint
Review
2-4 h
Sprint
Retrospective
1,5-3 h
Scrum Master

5. Not Every Rule is Easy to Follow

6. PO in a “Land of Milk and Honey”
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7. “Wake Up, Neo”

8. ScrumButt

9. Process Becomes Cargo Cult

10. How Did We End Up Like This?
PO
Product Owner
Product
Backlog
(Features)
Sprint
Planning
Part 1
(What?)
2-4 h
Sprint
Planning
Part 2
(How?)
2-4 h
Sprint
Backlog
(Tasks)
Team
SM
Daily Scrum
15 min
Product Backlog
Refinement
5-10% of Sprint
1 Day
2-4 weeks
Sprint
Potentially Shippable
Product Increment
Sprint
Review
2-4 h
Sprint
Retrospective
1,5-3 h
Scrum Master
PO
Product Owner
Product
Backlog
(Features)
Sprint
Planning
Part 1
(What?)
2-4 h
Sprint
Planning
Part 2
(How?)
2-4 h
Sprint
Backlog
(Tasks)
Team
SM
Daily Scrum
15 min
Product Backlog
Refinement
5-10% of Sprint
1 Day
2-4 weeks
Sprint
Potentially Shippable
Product Increment
Sprint
Review
2-4 h
Sprint
Retrospective
1,5-3 h
Scrum Master
New stories
(no time to
PBR!)
No sprint
commitment! L

11. Sprint-Level Visualization

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15. Divide and Conquer

16. Clear Roles and Responsibilities

18. Kanban at Project (Program) Level

19. High-level Flow

21. Value Stream Mapping

22. DoD Agreements (Analysis Phases)

23. Limit WIP

24. Backlog Grooming Ground Rules

25. Effective Collaboration
Feature Team US 1
Feature Team UA 2Feature Team US 2
Feature Team UA 1
Scrum of Scrums
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26. Big Picture

27. Anything Depends on Everything
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28. Inspect and Adapt!

29. Suggested Reading