Scrum

Scrum guide

Note: Have the same definition of Done

Values

• Commitment

• Courage

• Focus

• Openness

• Respect

• Transparency

Roles

• Product Owner (1 ppl):

  • Clearly expressing Product Backlog items;

  • Ordering the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and missions;

  • Optimizing the value of the work the Development Team performs;

  • Ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the Scrum Team will work on next; and,

  • Ensuring the Development Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the level needed.

• Development Team (2 < x < 10 ppl):

  • Clearly expressing Product Backlog items;

  • Ordering the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and missions;

  • Optimizing the value of the work the Development Team performs;

  • Ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the Scrum Team will work on next; and,

  • Ensuring the Development Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the level needed.

• Scrum Master:

  • The Scrum Master’s job is to work with the Scrum Team and the organization to increase the transparency of the artifacts.

  • To the Product Owner:

    • Ensuring that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on the Scrum Team as well as possible;

    • Finding techniques for effective Product Backlog management;

    • Helping the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items;

    • Understanding product planning in an empirical environment;

    • Ensuring the Product Owner knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value;

    • Understanding and practicing agility; and,

    • Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed.

  • To the Development Team:

    • Coaching the Development Team in self-organization and cross-functionality;

    • Helping the Development Team to create high-value products;

    • Removing impediments to the Development Team’s progress;

    • Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed; and,

    • Coaching the Development Team in organizational environments in which Scrum is not yet fully adopted and understood.

  • To the Organization:

    • Leading and coaching the organization in its Scrum adoption;

    • Planning Scrum implementations within the organization;

    • Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development;

    • Causing change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team; and,

    • Working with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.

Events

• Sprint(a time-box, max one month, during which a “Done”, useable, and potentially releasable product Increment is created):

  • No changes are made that would endanger the Sprint Goal;

  • Quality goals do not decrease; and,

  • Scope may be clarified and re-negotiated between the Product Owner and Development Team as more is learned.

  • A Sprint would be cancelled if the Sprint Goal becomes obsolete (Uncommon and traumatic).

  • Main concerns:

    • What can be delivered in the Increment resulting from the upcoming Sprint?

    • How will the work needed to deliver the Increment be achieved?

  • Development Team can assess what it can accomplish over the upcoming Sprint (from the backlog).

  • Sprint Goal should be discussed by the scrum team.

  • Work should be decompose to units of one day or less.

• Daily (15minutes) Responsible Scrum Master:

  • Plans next 24hr work.

  • Track progress.

  • Guide:

    • What did i do yesterday towards the sprint goal.

    • What will i do today towards the sprint goal.

    • Any impediments towards sprint goal.

• Sprint review (max 4hr results in a reviewed product backlog) Responsible Scrum Master:

  • Detail what is done

  • What is not

  • Detail insights, problems and solutions.

  • Check the increment

  • Most valuable thing to do next

  • Review of the timeline, budget, potential capabilities, and marketplace for the next anticipated releases of functionality or capability of the product.

• Sprint retrospective

  • Improve work processes

  • Adapt "Done" definition

Artifacts

• Product backlog (Product Owner):

  • Ordered list of every needed item in the product

  • Each item:

    • Description

    • Order (Higher the sooner is going to be done)

    • Estimate (By the people that is going to perform the work)

    • Value (Sum up sprint values for track performance)

    • Test descriptions

• Sprint backlog:

  • What is going to be done in the sprint.

  • It includes at least one high priority process improvement identified in the previous Retrospective meeting.

  • As new work is required, the Development Team adds it to the Sprint Backlog.