This document provides an overview of Scrum, including definitions of key terms like story, story points, iteration/sprint, velocity, and backlog. It describes Scrum as a simple framework for product development that establishes rules for the development process. Scrum focuses on continuous improvement and emphasizes delivering the highest business value features first while empowering teams. The document also lists technologies, testing tools, gems, and plugins that could be used in a Scrum-based project.

1. Scrum 101
&
ScrumNinja
(scrumninja.com)
Rodney Carvalho
rodney@internautdesign.com

2. Why Scrum?

3. Definitions
Story
Story Points
Iteration/Sprint
Velocity
Backlog

4. What is Scrum?

5. A simple framework for
product development

6. Describes a set of rules
by which the game is to
be played

7. Start Here
Planning
Daily
Retrospective Sprint
Standup
Demo (acceptance)

8. Includes definitions of
roles and responsibilities

9. Continuous Improvement
Process

10. It’s all about the team

11. Benefits
Deliver the features with highest business
value first
Impediments prioritized and systematically
removed
Empowers team - job satisfaction, employee
retention
Customer Satisfaction

12. Start Here
Planning
Daily
Retrospective Sprint
Standup
Demo (acceptance)

13. Start Here
Planning
Daily
Retrospective Sprint
Standup
Demo (acceptance)

14. Start Here
Planning
Daily
Retrospective Sprint
Standup
Demo (acceptance)

15. Burndown

16. Start Here
Planning
Daily
Retrospective Sprint
Standup
Demo (acceptance)

17. Start Here
Planning
Daily
Retrospective Sprint
Standup
Demo (acceptance)

18. Technology
Rails 2.1.1
Javascript
JQuery
superfish
facebox

19. Testing
shoulda
mocha
factories_and_workers
tidy
arts

20. Gems
haml
memcached
mislav-will-paginate

21. Plug-ins
action_mailer_optional_tls (Gmail)
async_mailer
acts_as_list
authenticatable
jrails
exception_notification
open_flash_chart

22. Plug-ins cont’d
resource_controller (highly recommended)
userstamps
recaptcha

23. Scrum Resources
Agile Project Management With Scrum by
Ken Schwaber
Scrum Alliance - http://scrumalliance.org