by Gunther VerheyenScrum. Connector, writer, speaker, humanizer.
The Future Present of Scrum
Are we Done yet?
Scrum Day Europe VAmsterdam, Netherlands7 July 2016
Houston?SDE turns 5.Scrum turns 21.
Thank YOU
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Is that a Gorilla I see over there?Source: https://versionone.com/pdf/VersionOne-10th-Annual-State-of-Agile-Report.pdf
Is the journey over?Are we Done yet?
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What is the #1 challenge of your team, department or organization moving forward with Scrum?
What is stopping you?Does your Scrum Master know? Does management know?
Looking at the journey ahead
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The future is unwritten. Our journey faces many challenges.
Enacting Scrum
People
Ceremonies
Principles and
Values
Technical Excellence
Done Increment
sThe power of the
possible product
Maximize Scrum
Scaled Scrum
Scrum Studio
Upstream adoption
Professional Scrum
Creating releasable software (every Sprint)
Increasing effectiveness (not
dysfunctions)
Scrum in the enterprise
Growing Product Ownership
Humanizing the workplace(It starts and ends with people)
Houston?
“If Scrum was to be reduced to one purpose, and one purpose only, that is the creation of a Done Increment in a Sprint.”
Source: Gunther Verheyen, “Done is a crucial part of Scrum, actually”
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A system called ‘Scrum’, the path we travel.
ProductBacklog
ValuableIncrement
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One team delivering product (the basics)
1. A team pulls work from one Product Backlog.
2. Each Sprint delivers a releasable Increment of product.
The Customer’s Experience
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Multiple teams delivering product (sticking with the basics)
1. A product has one Product Backlog.
2. Multiple Teams create integrated Increments, that can wrap into releases.The Customer’s Experience
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On your current or latest project:• Did you deliver an Increment?–Every Sprint?
• Was it releasable?–Every Sprint?
What is stopping you?Does your Scrum Master know? Does management know?
How Done are you?
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The definition of Done provides transparency
1. What is the state of the Increment?2. Is the Increment releasable, i.e. “ready for release”?
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Raise your hand:
They might have been produced in similar environments, using similar techniques. Their definitions of “Done” likely reflected very different product qualities.
Which product had the best definition of Done?
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Development Standards Product Qualities
What are you defining as “Done”?
• Pair programming• (A)TDD• Refactoring• User acceptance testing• Continuous Integration – Unit, deployment, build,
integration, regression tests• Performance testing
• Clean Code base• Valuable functionality only• Architectural conventions
respected• According to
design/style/usability guide• Documented• Service levels guaranteed
“Done is a crucial part of Scrum, actually.”
– Key for empirical product delivery– Foundational for business agility– The purpose for product people
Source: Gunther Verheyen, “Done is a crucial part of Scrum, actually”
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What Done requires
• Committed, focused, engaged people• Team effectiveness through collaboration, autonomy & self-
organization• Skills (training)• Engineering practices & standards• Infrastructure, tooling & automation• Quality standards & guidelines• Removal of Impediments• Elimination of low value
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A Scrum Studio. Your flight control center.
A Scrum Studio is a contained, yet integrated, part of the organization where software development fully employs Scrum• A physical or a virtual area• Value over utilization• Stable product teams• Tooling and infrastructure• Facilities and resources
A center of innovative and creative software and people development.
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Enacting Scrum. Your compass.
People
Commitment
Focus
OpennessRespect
Courage
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Scrum provides a bounded environment to get going
What is stopping you?• Does your Scrum
Master know?• Does management
know?
Scrum starts with Done.Let the next 20 years be about
enacting Scrum.
Source: Gunther Verheyen, “The Future Present of Scrum”
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About
Gunther VerheyenIndependent Scrum caretaker• eXtreme Programming and Scrum since 2003• Professional Scrum Trainer• Shepherded Professional Scrum at Scrum.org• Co-developed Agility Path, Nexus and the Scaled
Professional Scrum framework at Scrum.org• Author of “Scrum – A Pocket Guide” and “Scrum
Wegwijzer”
Mail [email protected] Twitter @Ullizee
Blog http://guntherverheyen.com
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S A F E T R A V E L S
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Scrum Guide Update 2016
“When the values of commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect are embodied and lived by the Scrum Team, the Scrum pillars of transparency,
inspection, and adaptation come to life. The Scrum Team members learn and explore those values as they work with the Scrum events, roles and artifacts.
Successful use of Scrum depends on people becoming more proficient in living these five values. People personally commit to achieving the goals of the
Scrum Team. The Scrum Team members have courage to do the right thing and work on tough problems. Everyone focuses on the work of the Sprint and
the goals of the Scrum Team. The Scrum Team and its stakeholders agree to be open about all the work and the challenges with performing the work. Scrum
Team members respect each other to be capable, independent people.”More at “There is value in the Scrum Values” (Gunther Verheyen)