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Agile Development with

ScrumShannon Lucas

 July 22nd  , 2011

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OutlineWhat is Scrum?

The Scrum Team

Scrum Events

Scrum Artifacts

UX & TestingOrganizational Impacts

Selling Scrum

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What is Scrum?

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Scrum frameworkFounded on empirical process control theory

Intentionally incomplete

Iterative & incremental

Outwardly facing & transparent

Requires a definition of “done”Adapts to changing requirements

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The Scrum Team

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The Scrum Team

Product

Owner

Scrum

Master Business

owner

Stakeholders

Scrum Team

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Product OwnerManages the Product Backlog and ensuresbusiness value of the Team’s work

Represents stakeholder interests to the team

Plans product releases and maintains product

roadmap

One person, not a committee

Ultimately responsible for product’s success

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Scrum MasterServes as coach, fixer, and gatekeeper

A leadership role rather than managerial

Plans individual Sprints with Team

Facilitates all of the Scrum events

Manages relationship between ProductOwner and rest of team

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The Development TeamCross-functional group of 5 to 9 people

Self-organizing & continuously improving

Team determines how to transform ProductBacklog into shippable functionality

Accountability belongs to Team as a whole

No domain-specific sub-teams

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Scrum Events

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Sprints

24Hours

Expanded tasks

Daily Scrum meeting

Sprint Backlog

Product Backlog

Potentially shippableproduct increment

14 Days

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SprintsConsistent duration throughout project

Team composition and quality goals remain

constant

No changes made that affect Sprint Goal

Scope can be clarified or re-negotiated as

more is learned

Risk is limited to cost of one sprint

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Sprint Planning MeetingTime-boxed meeting to determine work to bedone in a Sprint

First event of every Sprint

Answers “What will be delivered in this

Sprint?”

Answers “How will the work be achieved?”

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Daily ScrumDaily 15 minute (max) meeting

Each team member answers three questions:- What has been accomplished since last meeting? 

- What will be done before the next meeting? - What obstacles are in the way? 

Not a status meeting

Only Development Team can participate

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Sprint ReviewDevelopment Team demonstrates work donein the Sprint

Product Owner determines what has been

“Done” or not “Done”

Results in a revised Product Backlog

Informs planning for the next Sprint

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Sprint RetrospectiveFinal activity of every Sprint

Team reflects on the Sprint in terms of 

people, relationships, process, and tools

Identify what went well and where

improvements are needed.

Team plans how to implement improvements

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Scrum Artifacts

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Product BacklogSingle source of requirements and changes tothe product

Ordered by unique priority

Never complete

Dynamic and changes as needed responding

to changing business needs

Anyone involved can contribute to it

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Product Backlog

Highest priority items have the most detail

Detail on lower priority items deferred until

it’s needed

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Sprint BacklogSet of Backlog items that the Team commitsto delivering in the Sprint

Serves as a real-time picture of how work is

progressing

Belongs solely to the Development Team

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Definition of “Done”A shared understanding of what it meanswhen work is considered done

Defined at the beginning of the project

Applies globally to the project

Might include things such as:

- Unit & functional tests- Documentation

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User Experience & Testing

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User Experience Tasks

UX tasks happen slightly ahead of 

programming tasks

UX expertise stays involved

No big handoffs

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TestingNo distinct testing phase

Features are tested as they are completed,

during the Sprint they are developed in

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Organizational Impacts

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Organizational Impacts

Transitioning to Scrum isn’t always easy

Traditional roles change

Cultural changesCommitment to continuous improvement.

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Selling Scrum

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Selling Scrum

Clients may perceive fixed-bid contracts asless risky

Target-scope & target-cost models

Limiting client exposure to the internal

process

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Who uses Scrum?

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Questions?

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Thank you!

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ResourcesScrum.org - http://www.scrum.org/

Scrum Alliance - http://www.scrumalliance.org/

All Things Product Owner - http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/

 Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwaber

Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum by Mike Cohn

 A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum by Elizabeth Woodward