Quick reference to start Agile/SCRUM IT Development based on personal experiences and best practices. Most effective approach is "learning by doing" so after a short introduction simply start executing and keep learning and improving your process. It will show an exciting adventure with great results. Most important change is the paradigm shift from one-off project to process and get mind set to continuous delivery.

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Preparatory Steps to SCRUM
Step Main Actor(s)
1 Allocate cross-functional team (6-8 people) SCRUM master & Mgt
2 Define SCRUM roles within the team SCRUM master & team
3 Get initial Product Backlog Team
4 Evaluate/Investigate Product Backlog Items Team
5 Prioritisation Product Backlog Items (PBI) Product Owner
6 Define working/developing process (steps) Team
7 Set up SCRUM Board Team
8 Estimate velocity and set up Burndown rate
chart
Team
9 Start Sprint Planning session Team
10 Start SCRUM sprint Team
SCRUM team:
- DevOps team members
- SCRUM Master
- Product Owner
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Principles and Starting Points in short (1)
 Less is More
 Find a good cadence (continuous flow of results: analogy of
assemby line)
 SCRUM
– Split teams in cross- functional self-organising teams
– Split (big/complex) results into small (incremental) sub-deliverables
– Split time in short fixed-length iterations (1-4 weeks) with implementable results
– Continuously optimizing the delivering process
– Integrate regularly to (over)see the whole
 Kanban
– Visualize workflow
– Limit Work in Progress (WIP)
– Measure cycle-time and make as small as possible
– Pull work items (versus push)
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Principles and Starting Points in short (2)
 Lean
– Measure and analyse (defects, output variations etc)
– Avoid waste
 XP
– Pairing
– Iterations deliver incremental functionality
– Analysis and design decisions throughout the delivery process (no complete
upfront analysis and design)
– Face-to-Face communication
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Workflow Management
 SCRUM limits the WIP per iteration
 Kanban limits the WIP per process-step / workflow state
 Avoid Accumulations
To Do DoneWork in Progress (WIP)
Process steps (tbd by the team):
• Analyse
• Develop
• Test
• Release
• ....
FLOW
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SCRUM
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SCRUM Board
Product
Backlog
Items
Done
Committed
FLOW
Selected
For next
Sprint
 Planning and Status report
 Definition of Done
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Requirements Management
 Epic:
– Usually, an Epic comprise a very global and not very well defined functionality in
your software. It is very broad. It will usually be broken down into smaller user
story or feature when you try to make sense of it and making them fit in an agile
iteration. Epics are sometimes broken down into sub-epics.
 Feature is a short descriptive value delivery statement
 User Story:
– As < specific Role> I want < What, certain functionality > so that <why,
business benefit(s)>
– Primary Actor
– Pre-conditions
– Trigger(s)
– Basic flow (sunny-day-scenario)
– Exceptions
 Non-Functional requirements (logging, security, BCP/DR,
infrastructure refactoring etc)
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SCRUM: Velocity
 Velocity
– Accumulated (delivered/accepted) features per iteration or sprint
– Unit is Story Point
– Quick estimation of the size (not the effort)
– Planning Poker
– Using Fibonacci scale 1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34………..to avoid squabbling: goal is to get
quick estimation to reliably predict the future
– If a feature is estimated at 30-40 story points we should divide and breakdown the
feature in smaller parts
 Story point is an arbitrary measure to implement a story. Based
upon:
– Complexity
– Effort
– Uncertainty
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SCRUM: Velocity Chart
60
50
40
30
20
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Story Points
Sprints1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Running
Average: 20 3123 3026 29 29
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SCRUM: Burndown Rate Chart
60
50
40
30
20
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Story Points
Working Days2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 - - - - - -
Planned based on velocity
Actual
 Estimated the size, not the effort
 Keep focus on the remaining work to be done
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Kanban
 To Do - Doing - Done
– Covering E2E process
– Optimizing Flow
 (too) High WIP Bad lead time
 (too) Low WIP Idle people
– Never stop experimenting, keep learning
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Enterprise SCRUM
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Agile / SCRUM
Execution teams
Planning
And
Control

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Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
 How to split big / complex Artefacts into
smaller parts and how to get to release Plans
– Risks
– Impediments
– No congestions
– Stakeholder management
 Should be addressed as separate action
Investment(s)
Complex and Major
“Big Picture”
Epics
(sub-epics)
User Stories
Release Planning
Going Live
Sprints
BREAKDOWN,
SPLIT
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COMBINE,
INTEGRATE
& ASSEMBLE

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Enterprise SCRUM
 Collective ownership of the Factory is needed for success!
 Work Break-down complex business requirements (with business
value) into shippable / usable Products
– Collaborative approach
– Primacy with Business
 Assembly and Release Planning
– UAT
– Continuity Testing (Business and Technology)
– Collaborative approach
– Primacy with IT
Work
Break-down
and
Production
Planning
SCRUM
SCRUM
SCRUM
SCRUMSCRUM
SCRUM
SCRUM
SCRUM
Assembly
and
Release
Management
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References
 Leffingwell, Dean. 2011. Agile Software Requirements: Lean
Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise
 Leffingwell, Dean. 2007. Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices
for Large Enterprises
 Cohn, Mike. 2009. Succeeding with Agile: Software Development
Using Scrum
 Cohn, Mike. 2005. Agile Estimating and Planning
 Rally Software. 2013. Scaled Agile Programs with SAFe.
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