Introduction to Agile in an educational environment. The principles, values and an overview of the main items of EduScrum.

1. Agile in Education
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2. Agile Manifesto (www.agilemanifesto.org)
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3. Tweaked Agile Manifesto
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teaching
Learning
Student
students
Teaching

4. Agile
• Solving complex problems
• Continuous improvement
• Co-creation
• Reacting on change
• Risk management
• Making work more enjoyable
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5. Agile methodologies in IT
• Scrum (1986 – 1993)
• eXtreme Programming (1996)
• Kanban (2010)
• Lean Software Development (2003)
• …
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6. Agile in Education
• EduScrum
• ScrumAtSchool
• AgileClassRooms
• Urban-teachers
• AgileSchools
• …
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7. Scrum
• Rugby (scrummage): reaching a goal together
• Agile methodology used the most
• Better/cheaper/faster
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8. “The Art of Doing Twice the
Work in Half the Time”
(Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum)
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9. Scrum in Education
• E.g. EduScrum (www.eduscrum.nl)
• Lightweight framework
• 3 large elements
• Events – The Sprint
• Artifacts
• Scrum Team
• ‘What’ versus ‘how’
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10. Scrum: Product Owner 1
• = the lecturer
• Explains and facilitates Scrum + responsible for monitoring
• determines learning objectives + grading results
• Guides the learning process
• reference to learning materials
• answering questions + providing examples
• Explicitly focuses on the subject matter (What)
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11. Scrum: Product Owner 2
• Determines the quality of the educational result
• Acceptance criteria are determined on beforehand
• minimum test scores
• types and size of presentations
• deadlines and other requirements on the results
• Is responsible for managing the Product Backlog
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12. Scrum: Product Backlog
• List of learning outcomes and work methods (items)
• Possible ranking of items
• Over Sprints
• Higher order = more detail
• Items can be “done” within the Sprint time-box
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13. Scrum: Sprint Planning 1
• Student Team formation
• complementary talents, knowledge, competences
• One Scrummaster is chosen per Team
• Creates a team of 3 up to 5 students (Scrummaster included)
• Supports the Team and the Product Owner
• Learning outcome(s)
• Designated by the Product Owner
• What is expected at the end of the Sprint
• Subdivision into tasks (written on stickers)
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14. Scrum: Sprint Planning 2
• Estimate the relative time to complete each task
• By assigning points (= how hard a task is to complete)
• Points are written on the task-sticker
• High = hard; low = easy
• Planning Poker, Swimming lane method, …
• The Team determines when their work is “Done”
• Definition of Done (DoD)
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15. Scrum: Burn Down Chart
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16. Scrum: Scrummaster
• Responsible for the Scrum Board
• The stickers, the Burn Down Chart, …
• Removal of ‘impediments’
• ‘master of ceremony’ (Stand Up, Retrospective, …)
• Cross-team collaboration
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17. Scrum: Scrum Board
• Overview of all tasks (stickers)
• To Do – In Progress – Done
• Has to be ‘up to date’ (before every Stand Up)
• Illustrates the work done and in progress
• The Team is owner – Scrummaster is responsible
• Visible transparency of the process
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18. Scrum: Stand-up
• 5 minute gathering at the beginning of a meeting/class
• Synchronizing work + planning
• What have I done
• What will I do
• Possible impediments
• Updating the Scrum Board
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Communication, decision making,
project knowledge

19. Scrum: Executing Tasks
• Inspect and adapt
• Progress and quality
• Feedback on ongoing and finished tasks
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20. Scrum: Sprint Review
• At the end of the Sprint
• Presenting what is learned
• The manner depends on the Learning Outcomes
• Results are checked against DoD
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21. Scrum: Sprint Retrospective
• Following immediate after the Sprint Review
• The goal
• Inspect people, relations, processes and tools
• Identify possible improvements and positive elements
• Create a plan to improve
• Individual evaluation + group discussion
• Peer evaluation
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22. Willy Wijnands on EduScrum - video
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23. Examples
• Project (straight forward)
• Paper
• Exam
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24. Agile values
• Co-creation/collaboration/learn together
• Self organization
• Trust (in people)
• Respect
• Autonomy
• Blameless culture
• Continual experiment
• …
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25. Eat your own dog food
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26. Don’t Do Agile …
… BE Agile
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27. Q&A
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