A short speech comparing Scrum and The Lord of The Rings :o)

1. Scrum & Agile Development
Santiago, March 2010
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2. Ángel Medinilla
 Telco Guy - cable, radio & ISP /
portals
 13 years in IT, 11 as a Project
Manager
 Entrepreneur, blogger
 Aikido, Motorbikes, WoW,
books, cooking, wines, music,
travel, comics,movies…
 Certified Scrum Master - Scrum
Alliance Member, Agile Spain
co-founder, PMI member
angel.medinilla@proyectalis.com
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4. ICT Project Management Consulting
Our Mission Statement is: improve your
project results!
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5. Our Business
is to create
differences…
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6. …and improve your
competitive
advantage
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7. Some references
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8. Enough about us…
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9. An introduction to Scrum and
Agile Development
(Wilkins, stop passing notes…)
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10. Introducing…
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11. The Lord I want it
yesterday Dunno’ what I
need, just send
me a proposal
That’s not what
I wanted
Those 20 changes
were agreed as free
This was
supposed to be
included
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12. The poor guys
That sucks!
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13. The things
¡Grunt!
Me want bunch
two dot zero
Me compatible
IE6!
Me only talk
cobol
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14. The Client wants it
yesterday
Fill you time
sheets
project
manager Client wants 20
free changes
It won’t take more
This is not what than two days…
client wanted
Try harder!
This was
wupposed to
be included
I need a
performance report
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15. We need to build We need to end
The quality into the the tyranny of
process process
Wizard
We have to end
technical debt
We must learn
new technologies
We must improve
team’s life
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16. ¡Ooops! Probable Copyright
Infringement…
Cool down guys,
it’s for a good
reason
Peew,
thanks Mr.
Jackson
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17. In the beginnings
Coders are indisciplined
and disorganized. I will create
One Methodology to bind them
all in the Darkness
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18. In the beginning…
Maybe we’ll drop one more just
to cause some confusion.
Prince2:
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19. In the beginning…
Mmm… Just a bit more…
PMBOK
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20. In the beginning…
Eeeh… Just a bit more…
CMMI-ITIL:
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21. In the beggining…
Ok, serious, we’ll drop one more
just in case… Can’t have enough
control, can you?
MétricaV3
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22. For eons…
Software
projects are
Unwanted functionality filled with
chaos, BWAA-
HAHAHAH!
Exceeded schedules
Angry clients
Overbudget
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23. Revolution!
Something has to change. We must
end the Tyranny of Waterfall and the
belief in "everyone does it" and "you
must comply, try harder"
We must analyze the
problem we face and
propose realistic solutions
We must find the sustainable
pace and be better than our
competitors so we can defend
our models
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24. First problem
After six months of coding you
bring me something that’s not
what I wanted!!!
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25. First problem
Although the
We did what the document wasn't quite
document said specific in some
points...
We had to guess
Maybe there were
some little
misunderstandings
Client was not
available to
clarify
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26. Wrong strategy
We need more
documents ¡OMG!
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27. Solution Developers and business
people must work together side
by side througout the project
Let’s make small increments
and show our product to the
client so we can detect
deviations
Client will explain himself
better over a working product
than over a written document
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28. Agile Manifesto
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29. Second problem:
I want everything and I
want it NOW!!!!
Live
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30. Second problem
We can’t do two We are switching
things at the context all of the
same time time
We don’t even
know were to
start
Priorities are
always changing
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31. Solution One person can only do one thing at the
time. Let's concentrate on doing the most
important part right as fast as possible,
THEN, change to the next most
important thing.
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32. Solución In other
words:
Everyone to
Helm’s Deep!
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33. Third problem:
I want to make some
changes
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34. Third Problem:
Changes are bad, are bad, are It will damage
bad, are bad, are bad, are bad, mumblemumble… our architecture
Client doesn’t
know what he
wants
Changes are
expensive and
delay the project
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35. Wrong No problem, we
have Change
strategy Management
Use the form A-21 about
changes suggestions to allow
our analist to determine the
impact, generating the report
E-37. Once is approved it will
generate the design form F-56
and additional budget with code
Hobbiton-Elrond-Rohan. It will
be sent to the client for a
validation of the budget
deviation, included on the
analytic accountantability of the
project and in the list of
deviations on the base line, as
well as on the lessons learned
registry and in the risk
databases…
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36. Wrong strategy:
????????????
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37. Solution Any part of the project that hasn't
been initiated can still be changed for
one of similar complexity.
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38. Solution Our development will be ITERATIVE
and INCREMENTAL
1 2 3
1 2 3
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39. Solution But I can’t wait for next
iteration, I need my changes
and I need them NOW!!!!
Massteeer wants
nooow, my
preciousssssss…
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40. Solution If we interrupt the team during an
iteration, we break the pace and
concentration, lose productivity,
generate technical debt…WAIT
until the next iteration.If needed,
we can make shorter iterations
Defend the
team!
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41. Fourth Problem
We could be better. We could Yep, but there’s
learn, research, make new never enough
tools, refactor... time
Not enough time,
not enough time, not
enough time,,
mumblemumblemumble…
We always
come to the
same mistakes
“Someone
should” make
some things…
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42. Solution CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT is
vital. At regular intervals, the team
should think about how to be more
effective and productive.This is good
both for the team and for the client
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43. Fifth I need my
reports!
Problem How wll I assign costs to
the project?
How will I know if
something is going wrong?
What do I tell the client
during iteration?
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44. Fifth Problem
We are sick of making reports In fact I guess
and filling project time sheets them up on friday
afternoons…
Should we code
or make
reports?
We spend our
lives on
meetings…
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45. Solution This has to work for everyone or it will
be eliminated. We will report daily to
the Project Manager, in a daily
sinchronization meeting
Yesterday I found the One
Ring, and today I'll bring it to
Mordor. My main impediment
is an army of Orcs...
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46. Solution To avoid reporting constantly, we'll
keep SIMPLE tools of visual
management. That way, in a single
look we can get the global state of the
project.
Jeff Sutherland @
Google!
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47. In other words…
SCRUM
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48. In other
words…
Retrospective
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49. Some guys doing Scrum out there
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50. What do Agile enterprises use?
2nd Annual ”State of 3rd Annual ”State of
Agilee Development” Agile Development”
Survey Survey
Jun-Jul 2007 Jun-Jul 2008
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51. Ten Commandments of Scrum
1. People
2. No silver bullet
3. Retrospectives, retrospectives, retropectives
4. Daily Scum, daily management
5. Progress = functional product (measure what’s left, not what
we’ve done)
6. Self management of the team, abandon command & control
7. Iterative & Incremental developmen
8. Only team manages Sprint Backloj, Only product owner
manages product backlog
9. Fixed duration for sprints
10. Define “done, done”
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52. Story Pending Dev. Test Done
Project:
Team: Scrum, Demo:
Burn-down::
Release Plan:
Impediments:
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53. And in our next speech…
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54. Questions?
angel.medinilla@proyectalis.com
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55. Thank you!
angel.medinilla@proyectalis.com
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