The document provides an overview of the Agile-Scrum project development methodology. Some key points include:
- Scrum uses short development cycles called sprints to deliver working software frequently in an iterative manner.
- Self-organizing cross-functional teams work to deliver business value through working software at the end of each sprint.
- Daily stand-up meetings are held for teams to synchronize their work. Sprint planning and reviews ensure alignment with stakeholders.
- Key Scrum roles include the Product Owner who prioritizes backlog items, the Scrum Master who facilitates the process, and the Development Team.
- Sprints use a product backlog, sprint backlog and burn-down charts to track
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Shorter Delivery Cycles/Long Term Customer Commitments
• Customers looking at faster delivery cycles
• Adaptive solutions to meet customer’s ever changing business environment
• Long term customer commitments
• Time to Market
More Features/ Better Quality
• Competitive feature game
• Maintain high Production Quality
• Improve Usability
Address New Markets/ Honour Old Customers
• Become present in new Markets and segments
• Deliver as promised
• Improve customer satisfaction & ensure retention
How to go about it!
Business Challenges
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Identify Improvement Areas
• Finding the problem & root cause
• Maintain focus on your core competencies
• Work towards the end solution, keep intermediate goals
Start rolling the Ball
• Keep things simple
• Do your analysis before doing anything
Institutionalize & Adopt Change
• Train and facilitate teams
• Delegate & Empower
• Create Accountability with Responsibility
The SCRUM WAY !
The Stage
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What is SCRUM?
Work in your functional team
Scrum Call
Collaborative Planning & Review
Restart your work again
• Agile Way of Project Management.
• A team-based collabrative approach
• Iterative & incremental development
• Always focus to deliver “Business value”
Understanding SCRUM
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• Welcome changing requirements, even late in development
• Deliver Valuable Working Software frequently. This is our
primary measure of progress.
• Early visibility to Business
• Product owners (Business) and developers must work together
daily throughout the project, at a sustainable pace
• Inspect and adapt
• Self Organizing teams
PRINCIPLES OF SCRUM
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SCRUM Rules
• You Have No Hierarchical Role; You Are an Expert
• You are Part of the Team
• The Team’s Goals are your Goals; You committed to
them
• Do Whatever you can for the Team to meet its Goals
–Forget Role Thinking!
• There Is No Individual Failure – The Team Fails!
• There Is No Individual Success – The Team Succeeds!
• Done is done; as a team you completed these
activities
• You let the team down if you’re late to meetings
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• Responsible for committing to work
• Self-organizing
• Authority to do whatever is needed to meet
commitment
• Ideal core team size 7 (does not include visiting SME
or floating resources such as Usability Test)
• Demonstrates Sprint output as Product
Increment
• Business Owner, user community and
stakeholders
• Scrum Master
• Chicken and Pigs
Scrum
Roles
Product Owners
Scrum Master
Team Members Onsite +Offshore
(Analysts, developers,
Designers)
Business User
Community
SCRUM Team
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Daily Scrum
Daily activities
Product
Increment
Sprint
Planning Meeting
Sprint Review
Sprint
Retrospective
Update
Product
Backlog
• Initial Product Backlog
• Prioritised Backlog by
Business Content Leads
• Secured resources
• Impediment Log (from
previous Sprint)
Pre-requisites
Scrum Lifecycle
• Product Backlog
• Product Backlog Burn down
• Sprint Backlog
• Sprint Backlog Burn down
• Impediment Log
• Process Maps (Case wise)
• High Level Design
Key Artefacts
Scrum Roles
Product Owners
Scrum Master Team Members
(Analysts, developers,
Designers)
Business User
Community
•
What did we do yesterday?
•
What are we doing today?
•
What are the impediments?
SCRUM and SPRINT Cycle
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Sprint Planning
Meeting
Product Backlog
Team Skill-set &
Area of expertise
Business
Prioritisation
Technical Risk +
Complexity
Current Progress
Input
Team Resources Product
Owner
Scrum
Team
Scrum
Master
Input
Sprint Goal
Sprint Backlog
Output
SPRINT PLANNING
OFF-SHORE/ONSITE – through VC
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Sprint Planning
• The Project Product Owner reprioritises the product backlog
• The Product Owner and Scrum Team meet to determine the work that can be
completed in the next sprint.
• Work is selected from the top of the priority list by the Team.
• The Product Owner and the Team establish a goal for the sprint
• The Team is expected to select only work which they can commit to finishing
(according to the definition of “DONE”)
• Selected items are broken down into sprint backlog tasks
• Team estimation is informed by performance on previous sprints, capacity for the
forthcoming sprint and the relative complexity of the tasks required to deliver the
Sprint Goal.
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SPRINT Backlog contents
• The list emerges during Sprint planning
• The Sprint backlog is a list of tasks that defines a Team's work for a Sprint
• The tasks are what the Team has defined as being required to turn committed
Product Backlog items into system functionality
– Task size: 1-16 hours
– Estimated as a team
• Each task identifies the estimated amount of work remaining for the Sprint
– Tasks are not assigned, the team members pick themselves
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SPRINT Backlog contents
• The Sprint Backlog should be updated daily
– All tasks worked on that day
• Anything that gets done should be visible on the backlog
– Emergent tasks are added by the team to the backlog throughout the Sprint
Sprint
Backlog
items
In
Progress
items
Testing
Ready
Done
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Daily Scrum meetings
• Daily meeting
– 15 minutes
– Standup (to avoid too long meeting)
– Not for problem solving
• Three questions:
– What did you do yesterday?
– What obstacles are in your way?
– What will you do today?
• Same Time
• Same Place
• Every Day
• Everyone Participates
• Everyone Stands
• No Design (Talk About it After the Meeting)
• Update Sprint Burn down
• Update Impediment log
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Offshore and Scrum
Part of scrum team will be located offshore
Offshore team will work closely with onsite teams through various SPRINT phases
Scrum Master Responsibilities
Ensure self and team participates in daily scrum over teleconference
Ensure that burn down charts of the sprint backlog is up-to-date
Note impediments in his/her capability and address them
Ensure participation in the daily Scrum of Scrums (SoS)
Bring to the notice of SoS, the impediments that are not in his/her capability of
solving
Daily Scrum Meetings
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Impediment log
• Any issue that prevents the Scrum Teams from being able to progress an activity
should be placed on the Impediment Log.
• Any issue that is highlighted and known to impact the Scrum Teams at a future
date or future sprint, should be placed on the Impediment Log
• It is the responsibility of Scrum Master to resolve impediments locally. If the
impediments cannot be resolved locally, then these need to be raised at the
Scrum-of-Scrum daily meetings for escalation
• Anyone in the Team can raise an Impediment identifying a blocker to project
progress.
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SPRINT Burn Down
• Hours Remaining by Date
• Updated daily by Scrum Master (uploaded to Share point)
• Previous days’ Sprint Burn down is brought along to daily Scrum of
Scrums meeting
• How much effort is left to be done
• Visible to all the team (printed off and placed on Scrum team
whiteboard)
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SPRINT Review
• The team presents to management, customers, users and Product
Owner the product increment that has been built during the
Sprint
– Sprint goal
– Product Backlog committed
– Product backlog completed
• The team tells story of its journey during the Sprint – honestly!
• The majority of the Sprint Review is spent with Team members
presenting functionality, answering stakeholder questions
regarding the presentation
• At end of presentation, stakeholders are polled, one by one to get
their impressions, any desired changes, and priority of these
changes.
• Product Owner discusses with Team about potential
rearrangement of the Product Backlog based on the feedback.
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SPRINT Review Process
• The Team should not spend more than one hour preparing for Sprint Review.
• Functionality that isn't "Done" cannot be presented.
• Functionality should be presented and executed from development environment
• Stakeholders are free to voice any comments, observations, or criticisms regarding
the increment of potential shippable product functionality
• Stakeholders can identify functionality that wasn't delivered or wasn't delivered as
expected and request that such functionality be placed in the Product Backlog for
prioritisation.
• Stakeholders can identify any new functionality that occurs to them as they view the
presentation and request that the functionality be added to the Product Backlog for
prioritisation.
• The Scrum Master should determine number of people who expect to attend the
Sprint Review meeting and setup the meeting to accommodate them.
• At the end of Sprint Review meeting, Scrum Master announces the place and date
for next Sprint Review to Product Owner and stakeholders.
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SPRINT Retrospective
•Meeting at the end of each sprint, facilitated by Scrum Master,
where the team review the sprint just completed and discusses what
improvements they would like to make to the next sprint to make it
more productive.
– Process Improvements made at the end of every sprint
– All team members identify what went well and what can be improved
• Processes
• Communication
• Environment
• Artefacts
• Tools
• Team dynamics
– Team devises their own solutions to problems
– Assists with team formation and bonding as conflicts identified quickly
and thus can be dealt with
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DONE CRITERIA
Area Activity Completion
Status
Documentation Design documented in HLD and agreed within project incl peer review outside scrum team. 100%
Documentation Business Process Maps in Casewise to Level 4/5 agreed within project incl peer review outside of
scrum team
100%
Documentation Traceability – mapping of design to scope item to PBI to requirements to Process maps 100%
Design Assurance Design agreed and aligned with solution architecture (SAA + Solution Architect) 100%
Data Model Design agreed with Data Team and information requirement fully defined 100%
Migration Migration requirements agreed with the migration team incl where there are none 100%
Reporting Reporting requirements agreed with Product Owner and/or Content Lead and PBI added to
Reporting Backlog
100%
Testing Functional and Non-Functional Testing scripts produced and NFR coverage tracked including
explicit statements where not required
100%
•This list applies to all Product Backlog Items. If you are developing code in the sprint then page 2 (next slide) applies as well
•Evidence of Done will be required so ensure that you have obtained agreements by email where applicable
CONTND..
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DONE CRITERIA
Area Activity Completion Status
Code Developed against selected elements of the PBI design and build standards and peer
reviewed.
100%
Design Detailed design incorporated in HLD document and reviewed and agreed by lead
designer/architects
100%
Testing Unit Testing coverage (Error & defect free) 100%
Testing Functional Testing presented to and conducted by content lead and/or SME and/or
Front Line Business Users
100%
Testing Usability Testing presented to and conducted by content lead and/or SME and/or Front
Line Business Users
100%
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SPRINT
30 DAYS
Project --Development Process
SPRINT PLANNING MEETING
SPRINT REVIEW MEETING
Daily Scrum
Daily Work
Daily Run
through out sprint``
SPRINT
GOAL
SPRINT
BACKLOG
PRODUCT
INCREMENT
IMPEDIMENT
S
New Sprint Plan
+Increment
New Sprint Plan
+Increment
Burndown
BurdDown
Rate
BurdDown
Rate
Product
backlog
Time
SPRINT
30 DAYS
SPRINT 3
Daily Scrum
Daily Work
SPRINT
GOAL
SPRINT
BACKLOG
PRODUCT
INCREMENT
IMPEDIMENT
S
SPRINT REVIEW MEETING
PRODUCT
BACKLOG
Burndown
SPRINT
30 DAYS
SPRINT 2
Daily Scrum
Daily Work
SPRINT
GOAL
SPRINT
BACKLOG
PRODUCT
INCREMENT
IMPEDIMENT
S
SPRINT REVIEW MEETING
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Pre-Flight Checking
Plan your roadmap
• Identify small yet distinctively measurable goal
• Be clear
• Create internal expertise- Scrum Masters
Prepare your teams
• Get the terminology correct – Train
• Ensure you have all members covered –Seniors as well
• Make them comfortable
SCRUM in Practice
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• Team
The teams get focused > One common goal
Creates self discipline, accountability & responsibility
Faster, better Communication without barriers
No Manager-subordinate relationship – flat structure
Team Work, Commitment and Time & Risk Management
There Is No Individual Failure – The Team Fails!
There is No Individual Success –Team Success ( No man of the match)!
• Stakeholders
• Higher Visibility any time
• Ability to respond and Adapt
• Real software code in early phase of SW life cycle
• Better evaluation, testing, demonstration purposes.
• Organization
• Business Value - ROI
Benefits
SCRUM Benefits
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Things which are over-sighted
• Increment is demonstrated – But no focus on “Business Value”. Ask what Business Value!
• Stakeholders have other high priority work Stop, Include them !
• Team & Stakeholders say good job, does not measures What done, What left!
• Learning's are NOT moved into Next Sprint Plan Do retrospective check!
Things start failing, when
• Team member’s focus moves away from Sprint Goals. Rectify it !
• Stakeholders present/influencing team members participation. Check it !
• Daily Scrum Meetings turns into discussions Stop it!
• Confusion over impediments (Internal/External) Solve it !
Scrum Challenges