An Introduction to Scrum

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3. We ’re losing the relay race Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, “The New New Product Development Game”, Harvard Business Review , January 1986. “ The… ‘relay race’ approach to product development…may conflict with the goals of maximum speed and flexibility. Instead a holistic or ‘rugby’ approach—where a team tries to go the distance as a unit, passing the ball back and forth—may better serve today’s competitive requirements.”

9. The Agile Manifesto–a statement of values Source: www.agilemanifesto.org Process and tools Individuals and interactions over Following a plan Responding to change over Comprehensive documentation Working software over Contract negotiation Customer collaboration over

10. Project noise level Simple Complex Anarchy Complicated Technology Requirements Far from Agreement Close to Agreement Close to Certainty Far from Certainty Source: Strategic Management and Organizational Dynamics by Ralph Stacey in Agile Software Development with Scrum by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle.

11. Scrum Product backlog Cancel Gift wrap Return Sprint 2-4 weeks Return Sprint goal Sprint backlog Potentially shippable product increment Coupons Gift wrap Coupons Cancel 24 hours

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14. Sequential vs. overlapping development Source: “The New New Product Development Game” by Takeuchi and Nonaka. Harvard Business Review, January 1986. Rather than doing all of one thing at a time... ...Scrum teams do a little of everything all the time Requirements Design Code Test

32. A sample product backlog Backlog item Estimate Allow a guest to make a reservation 3 As a guest, I want to cancel a reservation. 5 As a guest, I want to change the dates of a reservation. 3 As a hotel employee, I can run RevPAR reports (revenue-per-available-room) 8 Improve exception handling 8 ... 30 ... 50

36. A sprint backlog Tasks Code the user interface Code the middle tier Test the middle tier Write online help Write the foo class Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri 8 16 8 12 8 4 12 16 8 4 11 8 4 8 8 Add error logging 8 10 16 8 8

37. A sprint burndown chart Hours

38. Hours 40 30 20 10 0 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Tasks Code the user interface Code the middle tier Test the middle tier Write online help Mon 8 16 8 12 Tues Wed Thur Fri 50 4 12 16 7 11 8 10 16 8

40. Scaling through the Scrum of scrums

41. Scrum of scrums of scrums

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