Scrum Overview

Do You Agree ?
• Most projects have challenges meeting
timelines
• Most projects have defects
• Most projects are inflexible to change
• Business need change by the time product
is ready for market

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Iterative Development – Scrum can
• Reduce development time – hence better
productivity
• Reduce defects – better quality
• Reduce time to market – Improved ROI
• Improve flexibility
• Receptive to changes
• Improve visibility

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 Agenda
• What is Scrum
• Scrum Artifacts
• Scrum Meetings
• Scrum at PayCalc

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 What is Scrum?

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
Source: Adapted from Agile Software
Development with Scrum by Ken
Schwaber and Mike Beedle.

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 What is Scrum?
• Roles
– Product Owner
• Possibly a Product Manager or Project Sponsor
• Marketing
• Internal Customer
• etc.

– ScrumMaster
• Represents management to the project
• Typically filled by a Project Manager or Team Leader
• Responsible for enacting Scrum values and practices
• Main job is to remove impediments and remove any politics

– Project Team
• 5-10 members
• Cross-functional: QA, Programmers, UI Designers, etc.

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 What is Scrum?
• Daily “stand up” meetings

– Folks who sit down at meetings get too comfortable

• They attend meetings for the coffee and doughnuts, not for the
project’s sake

– Only the ScrumMaster and the project team are allowed to talk:
outsiders may listen in, but are removed should they say anything
• This is all about who is committed to the project or not…

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 What is Scrum?
• Daily “stand up” meetings

– Time-boxed, typically to 15 minutes

• if you can’t say what you have to say succinctly, you’re waffling

– Three questions:
1. What did you do yesterday
2. What will you do today?
3. What obstacles are in your way?

– Keeping it time-boxed focuses folks minds and helps get/keep agenda

items targeted at what’s important:

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 Agenda
• What is Scrum
• Scrum Artifacts
• Scrum Meetings
• Scrum at PayCalc

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 Scrum’s Artifacts
• Scrum has remarkably few artifacts
– Product Backlog
– Sprint Backlog
– Burndown Charts

• Can be managed using nothing more than an Excel spreadsheet

– More advanced / complicated tools exist:
• Expensive
• Web-based – no good for the ScrumMaster/project manager who
travels
• Still under development

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 Agenda
• What is Scrum
• Scrum Artifacts
• Scrum Meetings
• Scrum at PayCalc

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 Scrum Meetings
• Following meetings are planned:
– Scrum planning meeting
– Daily scrum meeting
– Retrospective
– Sprint review meeting

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 Summary
• Create list of user stories – Product Backlog
• Prioritize the User Stories
• Estimate the user stories
• Plan a sprint based on the capacity
• Do Scrum meeting to keep track of status and
make adjustments to work book as required
• Update learning document after each Sprint

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 Summary
• Careful about:
– Estimates – Do not overestimate /
underestimate. Review estimate along with
peer to ensure it is realistic
– Task break down – Logical break down. Make
a work flow

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 • Thank You

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