Kaboom – Blow up your

watermelon

Marc Löffler (@scrumphony)

Marc Löffler

@scrumphony

http://blog.sybit.de

http://blog.scrumphony.com

Warning!!!

I may speak too fast....

Agenda

What is watermelon reporting?

What can we do about it?

A real life story

Conclusion

Agenda

What is watermelon reporting?

What can we do about it?

A real life story

Conclusion

Watermelon reporting occurs if...

...the status of a project is red but getting greener and

greener when climbing the hierarchy ladder.

Agenda

What is watermelon reporting?

What can we do about it?

A real life story

Conclusion

Transparency

Transparency

in Scrum

Sprint Backlog Sprint Burndown Backlog Burndown

Sprint Backlog Sprint Burndown Backlog Burndown

Not updated Not existent Not visible

If we already fail

with one team what

can we do if we

have multiple

teams?

Agenda

What is watermelon reporting?

What can we do about it?

A real life story

Conclusion

Overview

The problem

x =

Where would you

start?

What we did...

UX Team � Kanban

Visualize the workflow

On project level � „Master Board“

On project level � Consolidated the backlogs

On management level

Agile

Dashboard

What the heck is an

agile dashboard???

Some kind of cockpit

Our agile dashboard

No space left...

Agenda

What is watermelon reporting?

What can we do about it?

A real life story

Conclusion

Transparency kills watermelon reporting

Mixing Scrum and Kanban works great...

One watermelon and your transparency is gone

x =

Questions...?

Thanks for your attention

Sybit GmbH

Marc Löffler

marc.loeffler@sybit.de

http://blog.scrumphony.com

Twitter: @scrumphony

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