SCRUM in Brief
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Agile Manifesto Philosophy
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Individuals and interactions
Working software
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Process and tools Comprehensive documentation
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Customer collaboration
Responding to change
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Contract negotiation
Following a plan
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SCRUM The Framework
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Sprints
Scrum projects make progress in a series of sprints
Analogous to Extreme Programming iterations
Typical duration is 24 weeks or a calendar month at most A constant duration leads to a better rhythm Product is designed, coded, and tested during the sprint
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Scrum framework
Roles
Product owner ScrumMaster Team
Ceremonies
Sprint planning Sprint review Sprint retrospective Daily scrum meeting
Artifacts
Product backlog Sprint backlog Burndown charts
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Scrum framework
Roles
Product owner ScrumMaster Team
Ceremonies
Sprint planning Sprint review Sprint retrospective Daily scrum meeting
Artifacts
Product backlog Sprint backlog Burndown charts
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Product owner
Define the features of the product Decide on release date and content
Be responsible for the profitability of the product
Prioritize features according to market value Adjust features and priority every iteration, as needed
Accept or reject work results
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The ScrumMaster
Represents management to the project Responsible for enacting Scrum values and practices Removes impediments Ensure that the team is fully functional and productive Enable close cooperation across all roles and functions Shield the team from external interferences
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The team
Typically 5-9 people
Cross-functional:
Programmers, testers, user experience designers, eventually product owner etc. May be exceptions (e.g., database administrator) Ideally, no titles but rarely a possibility
Members should be full-time
Teams are self-organizing
Membership should change only between sprints
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Scrum framework
Roles
Product owner ScrumMaster Team
Ceremonies
Sprint planning Sprint review Sprint retrospective Daily scrum meeting
Artifacts
Product backlog Sprint backlog Burndown charts
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Team capacity Product backlog Business conditions Current product Technology
Sprint planning meeting
Sprint prioritization
Analyze and evaluate product backlog Select sprint goal
Sprint goal
Sprint planning
Decide how to achieve sprint goal (design) Create sprint backlog (tasks) from product backlog items (user stories / features) Estimate sprint backlog
Sprint backlog
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Sprint planning
Team selects items from the product backlog they can commit to completing Sprint backlog is created and put on taskboard
Tasks are identified and each is estimated (1-16 hours) Collaboratively, not done alone by the ScrumMaster
High-level design is considered
As a vacation planner, I want to see photos of the hotels.
Code the middle tier (8 hours) Code the user interface (4) Write test fixtures (4) Code the foo class (6) Update performance tests (4)
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The sprint goal
A short statement of what the work will be focused on during the sprint
Life Sciences Database Application
Support features necessary for population genetics studies.
Make the application run on SQL Server in addition to Oracle.
Watermill - Hercules
Fix Rollout and implement backward compatibility with Aurora release.
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The daily Scrum
Parameters
Daily 15-minutes Stand-up Whole world is invited
Not for problem solving
Only team members, product owner, can talk
Helps avoid other unnecessary meetings
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Everyone answers 3 questions
What did you do yesterday?
What will you do today? Is anything in your way?
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These are not status for the ScrumMaster
They are commitments in front of peers
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The sprint review (demo)
Team presents what it accomplished during the sprint Typically takes the form of a demo of new features or underlying architecture Informal
2-hour prep time rule No slides
Whole team participates Invite the world
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Sprint retrospective
Periodically take a look at what is and is not working Typically 1530 minutes Done after every sprint Whole team participates
ScrumMaster Product owner Team Possibly customers and others
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Start / Stop / Continue
Whole team gathers and discusses what theyd like to:
Start doing
Stop doing
Continue doing
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Scrum framework
Roles
Product owner ScrumMaster Team
Ceremonies
Sprint planning Sprint review Sprint retrospective Daily scrum meeting
Artifacts
Product backlog Sprint backlog Burndown charts
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Product backlog
The requirements A list of all desired work on the
project Ideally expressed such that each item has value to the users or customers of the product Prioritized by the product owner Reprioritized at the start of each sprint
This is the product backlog
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Sprint backlog
Individuals sign up for work of their own choosing
Work is never assigned by a person to another person
Estimated work remaining is updated daily Any team member can add, delete or change the sprint backlog Work for the sprint emerges
If work is unclear, define a sprint backlog item with a larger amount of time and break it down later
Update work remaining as more becomes known
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Burndown Charts
Release burn-down chart after each sprint closure
140 121,5 120 100 101,5 88,5 80 71,5 60 Initial release burndown 55,5 45,5 40 22,5 Actual release burndown
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0 -10,5 -20 Sprint1 Sprint2 Sprint3 Sprint4
Sprint burn-down chart
250
200
Remaining Hours
150
100
50
0 15-Dec 16-Dec 17-Dec 18-Dec 21-Dec 22-Dec 23-Dec
4-Jan
5-Jan
6-Jan
7-Jan
8-Jan 11-Jan 12-Jan 13-Jan 14-Jan 15-Jan 18-Jan 19-Jan 20-Jan 21-Jan 22-Jan 25-Jan 26-Jan
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