SCRUM 59 minutes

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Rachel Davies
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59- Minute SCRUM – Bringing SCRUM Alive!

Timetable:
Introduce the SCRUM Concepts 30 minutes

59-Minute Exercise:
Complete Sprint Planning Meeting 10 minutes
Conduct a Sprint “Day 1” 10 minutes
Conduct a Daily Scrum Meeting 05 minutes
Conduct a Sprint “Day 2” 10 minutes
Conduct a Sprint Review and Demo 06 minutes
per team (x4)

Debrief the exercise 15 minutes

Questions 15 minutes
SCRUM Practices

∙ Product Backlog
∙ Sprint
∙ Sprint Planning Meeting
∙ Sprint Backlog
∙ Roles
₋ Product Owner, Scrum Master, Scrum Team
∙ Daily Scrum Meeting
∙ Sprint Review Meeting
SCRUM Lifecycle

24 hours
Daily Scrum
Meeting

Backlog tasks 30 days

expanded
Sprint Backlog by team

Potentially Shippable
Product Backlog Product Increment
As prioritized by Product Owner
Product Backlog

∙ Prioritized list of work to be

performed on a product
∙ Anyone can contribute backlog items
∙ Product Owner responsible for
prioritisation
Sprint

∙ A fixed period of 30 days to develop a

deliverable product
∙ The Sprint includes design, coding,
testing, and documentation
∙ Once a Sprint has started only the Scrum
Team can add or remove items in Sprint
backlog
∙ Abnormal termination of Sprint is called
for when the Sprint Goal no longer
makes sense
Sprint Planning

Meeting to set the next Sprint goal

Product
Backlog
Team
Capabilities
Business Review Next Sprint
Conditions Conside Goal
Technology r
Stability Organiz Sprint
e Backlog
Executable
Product
Increment
Sprint Burndown Chart

Progress

900
800
Remaining Effort in Hours

752 762
700
664
600 619
500
400
300 304
264
200 180
100 104
0 20

Date
Daily Scrum

Daily 15 minute status meeting

Team stands in a circle facing each other
Each team member answers 3 questions:
∙ What have you done since the last Scrum?
∙ What will you do between now and the next
Scrum?
∙ What got in your way of doing work?

For synchronization not problem solving!

Sprint Review

∙ During this meeting the team presents to

management, customers, users and the
Product Owner the product increment that
has been built during the Sprint
∙ The team tells the story of its journey during
the Sprint.
∙ Powerpoint presentations are forbidden!
 Scrum Team

∙ Self-organizing
∙ Cross-functional with no roles
∙ Seven plus or minus two
∙ Responsible for committing to work
∙ Authority to do whatever is needed to meet
commitment
Chickens & Pigs

∙ Members of Scrum Team are known

as Pigs because they are committed
to delivering Sprint Goal
∙ People who are involved but not
dedicated to the project are known as
Chickens - they attend Scrum
meetings as observers
Product Owner


Sets development schedule by
prioritizing backlog

One person in this role ensures that
only one set of requirements drives
development

Can be influenced by committees,
management, customers, sales
people, but is the only person that
prioritizes

Works with others to estimate items
on Product Backlog

Eliminates confusion of multiple
bosses, different opinions, and
interference
Scrum Master

 The Scrum Master is

responsible for
 the success of SCRUM

 establishing SCRUM

practices
and rules, shielding the
team
and removing obstacles
 representing management

to the
project
Exercise - Sprint Planning

Sprint Planning Meeting 10 mins

∙ Review the Product Backlog
∙ Select an achievable Sprint Goal with Product Owner
∙ Determine what the number of features might be
that your team can complete
∙ Think about initial assignments
∙ Produce a Sprint Backlog on team worksheet
Example Sprint Backlog

Sprint Goal: Explain Entertainment

Potential effort: 6 members * 20 min = 120 minutes

1. Describe entertainment in the park

₋ Music 20 min
₋ Comedy/Improv 20 min
2. Describe special events
₋ Bonfire Night 15 min
₋ Sandwich appreciation month 10 min
3. Suggest related nearby activities and events
₋ Lego Museum 25 min
₋ Giant ball of twine 17 min
= 107minutes
YOUR Sprint Backlog

Sprint Goal:

1. ___________________________
₋ ___min
₋ ___ min
2. ___________________________
₋ ___min
₋ ___min
3. ___________________________
₋ ___min
₋ ___min
4. ____________________________
₋ ___min
₋ ___min = _____ TOTAL
Exercise - Daily Scrum

Scrum Meeting 5 mins

Team stands in a circle facing each other
Each team member answers 3 questions:
∙ What have I completed since our last meeting ?
∙ What do I intend to complete before our next
meeting ?
∙ What is getting in my way ?
Exercise - Sprint Review

Sprint Review 6 mins

Elect a spokesperson to facilitate the Sprint Review and
Demo Meeting
Conduct a Sprint Review and Demo of your brochure at
the end of the sprint:
∙ What is the potentially shippable increment (Demo)?
∙ What did we complete of our Sprint Backlog?
∙ What is the feedback from our Product Owner?
A Few Rules

∙ Each team MUST work together

∙ Everyone MUST have work in the Sprint
∙ Each team MUST demo something at the end of the
Sprint (free of choice about how)
∙ Each team MUST complete their Sprint Planning with
a Sprint Backlog on the worksheet
∙ Each team MUST conduct their Daily Scrum meeting
∙ No Scrum Master is used in this exercise
∙ No predefined roles on Team; self-organization
rules!
Questions

You can find out more information at:

∙ http://www.scrumalliance.org/
∙ Book “Agile Software Development with SCRUM” by
Ken Schwaber, Mike Beedle
∙ Book “Agile Project Management with SCRUM” by Ken
Schwaber
∙ http://www.controlchaos.com/ - Ken Schwaber’s
own site