2019 Agile ^ Scrum

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© Copyright 2019 - phuocnt@gmail.com
AGILE & SCRUM
WORKSHOP
Trainer: Msc. PMP. Nguyen Thanh Phuoc
Date : Nov - 2019
About ME
• 20 Software Development
• 15 Trainer
• 10 Software Engineer (DEV)
• 08 Software Architect (SA)
• 06 Project Manager (PM)
• 05 Scrum Master
• 04 Quality Specialist (SQA)
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Getting to know each other
Ø Your Name
Ø Organization
Ø Your Current Role
Ø Experience with Scrum
Ø Expectation from the Workshop
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Workshop Approach
Lectures Exercises
Questions
and answers Discussions Participation
by all
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Rules of Engagement
Ø Participate
Ø One person speaks at any given time
Ø Keep discussions and questions to the point
Ø Turn off your cell phones and other communication
devices
Ø Be prompt returning from breaks
Ø Provide feedback as to where course can be
improved – it will be useful for sub-sequent sessions
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Successful completion of this course requires that participants
Completion Criteria
Actively participate in
classroom discussions
and exercises both the
days
Do not miss any
classroom time
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1. Agile Retrospectives: Make Good Teams Great –
Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, Ken Schwaber
2. Agile Estimating and Planning – Mike Cohn
3. User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development:
Mike Cohn
4. Agile Project Management with Scrum: Ken Schwaber
5. Scrum.Inc
6. Scrum Org
7. Scrum Alliance
8. Scrum Guide
9. https://www.slideshare.net/phuocnt79/documents
Reference Material Used
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Why Managers Need Agile
Capturing the Competitive Advantage
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Agile is Faster, Better
• Projects can be delivered at 50% of the cost with
40% fewer defects.
• J. Sutherland, C. Jacobson, and K. Johnson, "Scrum and CMMI Level 5: A Magic Potion for Code Warriors!," in Agile 2007,
Washington, D.C., 2007.
• Customers are happier and developers have more
fun.
• The agile process is the universal remedy for
software development project failure.
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Agile Process
Chaos Manifesto 2011, Standish Group International, Inc.
Source:
• Software applications developed through the agile process have
three times the success rate of traditional waterfall method and
a much lower percentage of time and cost overruns.
• The secret is the trial and error and delivery of the iterative
process.
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Why Are Projects Late?
Third party projects are almost
always late...
• Things change. Over 65% of the
requirements change during the
average development project.
• Change is good for business.
Competitive bidding means an initial
bid has low profit margin. The money
is made on changes billed at time and
materials.
• The project has to be late for
vendors to make a lot of money.
...But internal projects are usually worse
• On average, 80% of the cost of a project
is spent up front in the decision process,
project management, and requirements
development.
• Implementation starts building
assuming nothing will change.
• Change control boards try to fend off
change.
• By the time it becomes clear that 65%
of the requirements are changing, most
of the time and budget has been spent.
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Why Do Things Change?
• Users don’t know what they want until they see
working product (Humphrey’s Law).
• Since users have to specify all requirements up front,
they put everything but the kitchen sink in the
requirements documents. 65% of features are never or
rarely used.
• Users discover what they want later, particularly
when the business changes. By that time they have
spent their budget on a lot of unnecessary features.
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Not All Features Are Created Equal!
65% of features provide little to no value,
are rarely used and/or aren’t actually
desired by the customer
The rest are OK,
but not as
important
80% of value
typically resides in
20% of features
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The Solution - Get Your Change for Free
• Create a prioritized backlog of work to be done with
highest business value items first.
• Implement in short sprints, always less than a month.
• When higher priority requirements emerge, put them
in the next sprint.
• Cut lowest priority items out of the project equal to the
amount of work added. These features are unlikely to
be used anyway.
• Change for free allows you to meet your budget and
deliver on time.
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Money for Nothing:
Even Better Than Change for Free
• Projects are usually prioritized by return on investment.
• Ordering your Product Backlog allows you to prioritize
features by return on investment.
• Since 65% are never or rarely used, during the project it
will become evident that the next low priority feature
costs more than the value it delivers.
• Stop the project at that point and deploy the valuable
features.
• All projects should deliver early and save money.
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Value Curve - Radically Faster Delivery
Deliver here at the latest!
80% of value
20% of features
MVP may be here
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Compounding Value - Radically Better Delivery
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1: AGILE

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Content
• Agile Introduction
• Agile vs. Waterfall
• Agile Methodologies
• Agile Practices
• Agile Myths
• SCRUM Introduction
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What is Agile?
• Agile is a set of common values and principles
that the processes and tools have in common
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What is Agile?
• Agile is about Values and Principles
– People and organizations can not do Agile – they
can be Agile
• Working practices can be Agile and fit into
Values and Principles
– Teams can do Scrum or XP or whatever
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What is Agile?

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What is Agile?
The Agile Manifesto* (Agile Values)
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right,
we value the items on the left more.”
(2001, Kent Beck, Mike Beedle, Arie van Bennekum, Alistair Cockburn, Ward Cunningham,
Martin Fowler, James Grenning, Jim Highsmith, Andrew Hunt, Ron Jeffries, Jon Kern,
Brian Marick, Robert C. Martin, Steve Mellor, Ken Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland, Dave Thomas
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12 Agile Principles
1. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer
through early and continuous delivery of valuable
software.
2. Welcome changing requirements, even late in
development. Agile processes harness change for the
customer's competitive advantage.
3. Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of
weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to
the shorter timescale.
4. Business people and developers must work together
daily throughout the project.
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12 Agile Principles
5. Build projects around motivated individuals. Give
them the environment and support they need, and
trust them to get the job done.
6. The most efficient and effective method of conveying
information to and within a development team is
face-to-face conversation.
7. Working software is the primary measure of progress.
8. Agile processes promote sustainable development.
The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to
maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
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12 Agile Principles
9. Continuous attention to technical excellence and
good design enhances agility.
10. Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of
work not done--is essential.
11. The best architectures, requirements, and designs
emerge from self-organizing teams.
12. At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to
become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its
behavior accordingly.
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How the manifesto impacts business through
its 12 Agile Principles – Working Software
1. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through
early and continuous delivery of valuable software
3. Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of
weeks to a month, with a preference to the shorter
timescale
7. Working software is the primary measure of progress
9. Continuous attention to technical excellence and good
design enhances agility
10. Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work
not done - is essential
* www.agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
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Agile Principles (cont.) –
Responding to Change / Customer Collaboration
2. We welcome changing requirements, even late in
development. Agile processes harness change for the
customer's competitive advantage
4. Business people and developers must work together daily
throughout the project
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Agile Principles (cont.)
– People & Interactions
6. The most efficient and effective method of conveying information
to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation
5. Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the
environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job
done
11. The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from
self-organizing teams
8. Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors,
developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace
indefinitely
12. At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more
effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly
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Defined vs. Empirical Process Control
• “It is typical to adopt the defined (theoretical)
modeling approach when the underlying
mechanisms by which a process operates are
reasonably well understood.
• When the process is too complicated for the defined
approach, the empirical approach is the appropriate
choice.” è SCRUM is Empirical Process.
Process Dynamics, Modeling, and Control
Ogunnaike and Ray, Oxford University Press, 1992
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The Agile Paradigm Shift
Estimated Time
Waterfall
VALUE
driven
PLAN
driven
Fixed
FeaturesResources
TimeRequirements Resources
Agile
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Agile vs. Waterfall
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Agile vs. Waterfall
• Waterfall – Predictive approach
– 3 things we wish were true
• The customer knows what he/she wants
• The developers know how to build it
• Nothing will change along the way
– 3 things we have to live with
• The customer discovers what he/she wants
• The developers discover how to build it
• Many things change along the way
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Agile vs. Waterfall
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Agile vs. Waterfall
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Agile Methodologies
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Agile Practices
• Practices for Effective Teamwork
– Model with Others
– Active Stakeholder Participation
– Collective ownership
– Display Models Publicity
• Practices that enable Simplicity
– Create simple content
– Use the simplest tool
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Agile Practices
• Practices for Validation Your Work
– Consider testability
– Prove It with Code
• Pair programming
• Continuous integration
• Feedback loop
• Daily meeting
• Code Review
• Test-Design Driven (TDD)
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Agile Myths
• Agile is a silver bullet
• Agile is anti-documentation.
• Agile is anti-planning.
• Agile is undisciplined.
• Agile requires a lot of rework.
• Agile is anti-architecture.
• Agile doesn't scale.
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http://www.agilenutshell.com/agile_myths
Next => SCRUM
• Scrum is an Agile framework for completing
complex projects
• Product development, using Scrum, occurs in
small pieces, with each piece building upon
previously created pieces
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Next => SCRUM
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Group Discussion
• What are the advantages and disadvantages
when applying agile to project?
• What needs to be changed in order to apply
agile to project?
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Thank you
for your
attention!
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2: SCRUM
Content
• SCRUM Introduction
• SCRUM Framework
• SCRUM Roles & Responsibility
• SCRUM Events
• SCRUM Artifacts
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History of SCRUM
• Formalize in 1993 by Ken Schwaber and Dr. Jeff
Sutherland
• Ken Schwaber leads Scrum.org
• Jeff Sutherland leads ScrumAlliance.org (CEO of
Scrum.inc)
• Both organizations can provide Scrum certification
– ScrumAlliance.org – CSM
– Scrum.org – PSM
• In Sep 2014, Scrum.org and the Scrum Alliance agreed
to release a common version of the Scrum Guide
http://scrumguides.org/
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What is SCRUM?
• Scrum is not a process or a technique for
building products
• It is a framework within which you can employ
various processes and techniques
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SCRUM Values
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Principles of Scrum

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SCRUM Pillars
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SCRUM Values & Pillars
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SCRUM Framework
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Agile Principle: Satisfy the customer
through delivery of valuable software
Product Backlog:
Prioritized Items
desired by Customer
Vision
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Agile Principle: Deliver working software
Potentially Shippable
Product Increment
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Agile Principle: Deliver working software
frequently
2-4 weeks
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Agile Principle: Welcome change
Backlog tasks
expanded
by team
Sprint Planning Meeting
• Review Product Backlog
• Estimate Sprint Backlog
• Commit to 2-4 weeks of work
Sprint Backlog
• Product Backlog Items assigned to Sprint
• Estimated by team
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Agile Principle: Self organizing teams
Daily
Daily Scrum Meeting
• Done since last meeting
• Plan for today
• Obstacles?
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Agile Principle: Reflect regularly
on process and product
Sprint Demo and Review
Meeting
• Demo done items
• Retrospective on the Sprint
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Potentially Shippable
Product Increment
Daily
Daily Scrum Meeting
• Done since last meeting
• Plan for today
• Obstacles?
• Review Product Backlog
• Estimate Sprint Backlog
• Commit to 2-4 weeks of work
Sprint Backlog
• Product Backlog Items assigned to Sprint
• Estimated by team
Vision
2-4 weeks
Sprint Demo and Review
Meeting
• Demo done items
• Retrospective on the Sprint
Product Backlog:
Prioritized Items
desired by Customer
Backlog tasks
expanded
by team
Now There is a Framework of Continuous
Improvement and Delivery
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SCRUM Roles
• Product Owner
• Scrum Master
• The Development Team
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Product Owner
• Represents the stakeholders and is the voice
of the customer
• Owns the vision of what would be produced
to achieve business success
• Get input from customer, manager,
stakeholders
• Turn this into a single list (Product Backlog) of
what would be produced, prioritized based on
business values and risks
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Product Owner
• Responsibility:
– Maximizing the value of the product and the work of the
Development Team
– Managing the Product Backlog
• Clearly expressing PBI (Product Backlog Item)
• 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
• Ensuring the Development Team understands item in the Product
Backlog to the level needed
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Product Owner
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©2013ScrumInc.
Product Owner is a Big Job
• Initially, one Product Owner may be
able to generate ready backlog for
several teams
• As team velocity increases, a
Product Owner team, led by a Chief
Product Owner, will be needed
• The Product Owner team are
domain experts that describe the
user experience, the screen shots,
the workflow, the data
requirements, the look and feel.
T TT T TT T TT
PO PO
CPO
PO
T TT T TT T TT
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Development Team
• Is responsible for delivering potentially shippable
product increments at the end of each Sprint.
• The ideal team size in SCRUM is 3 to 9 (in scrum guide)
• The team is cross-functional. It has all skills to produce
finished product: designer, coder, tester, etc…
• Everyone contributes based on competency, rather
than job title
• The team is self-organizing and self-managing. It is
responsible for making a commitment and managing
itself to hit the goal. SCRUM provides tool to help team
to do it.
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Development Team
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The Scrum Delivery Team =
Value Delivery
• Developer Team:
– No title other than Developer; No sub team
– Accountability belongs the Development Team
as a whole
– Developers, Testers, …..
– Who else do you need to deliver value for the
increment?
– What about the Product Owner?
• Activities:
– Commit to the Sprint
– Plan their work (tasks, dependencies)
– Determine the estimates
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Scrum Team Characteristics
• Seven plus or minus two (or 3 – 9)
• Co-located
• Cross-functional with
flexible roles
• Collaborative
• Committed to the Sprint goal
• Also, look at http://www.xp123.com/xplor/room-gallery/index.shtml for an impression
of team rooms
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SCRUM Master
• Is responsible for ensuring
Scrum is understood and
enacted.
• Ensure that the Scrum
Team adheres to Scrum
theory, practices, and
rules.
• Is a servant-leader for the
Scrum Team
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SCRUM Master
• Service to Product Owner
– Finding techniques for effective Product Backlog
management
– Helping the Scrum Team understand the need for
clear and concise PBIs
– Understanding product planning in an empirical
environment
– Ensuring the PO knows how to arrange the Product
Backlog to maximize value
– Understanding and practicing agility
– Facilitating Scrum events as requested or needed
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SCRUM Master
• Service to 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
– Coaching the Development Team in organizational
environments
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SCRUM Master
• Service to 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
– Working with other Scrum Masters to increase the
effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the
organization.
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ScrumMaster Facilitates Team
Organization and Maturity
• Self-organizing teams evolve and grow over time
• A ScrumMaster’s involvement evolves with the team on the
Agile Team Maturity Scale
More support
needed,
increased
ScrumMaster
guidance and
facilitation
Less support and
facilitation
needed, more
team self
organization
Low HighAgile Team Maturity Scale
Time
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Other Participants in Scrum
• PMO, Directors, Specialists, Stakeholders, etc.
• Participate in and contribute to planning and
demo
• The Delivery Team owns the daily/stand-up
meeting
– Contributors tend to observe
– Coordinate with ScrumMaster after the meeting
to address observations, concerns
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SCRUM Events
• Sprint
• Sprint Planning
• Daily Meeting
• Sprint Review
• Sprint Retrospective
Events
– All events are time-boxed in order to ensure that
appropriate amount of time is spent without allowing
waste in the process
– All events are to enable transparency and a change
for inspection and adaptation.
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Sprint
• A sprint is a constant duration identified for
delivering a product increment.
• Sprints are typically between 1 and 4 weeks
length.
• For a project, all sprints have the same
duration.
• Sprints have a start date and an end date.
• A sprint cannot be closed early unless it is
canceled or is the last sprint for the product.
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Sprint
• Only the product owner can decide whether a
sprint can be canceled when it is identified
that the sprint goal is obsolete.
• Sprint occurs one after another without any
down-time between them
• Each sprint is started by a planning meeting
and ended by a sprint review an retrospective
meeting
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Abnormal Termination of
Sprint
Sprints can be
cancelled before the
allotted timebox is
Management can cancel
sprint if external
circumstances
negate the value
of the Sprint goal
If a sprint is abnormally
terminated, the next step
is to conduct a new
sprint planning meeting,
where the reason for the
termination is reviewed
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No Change in Sprint
• No change keeps the team commitment
• During the sprint, what the team committed
to deliver does not change, and the end-date
of Sprint does not change.
• If something major comes up, Product Owner
can terminate the Sprint prematurely, and
start a new one
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Sprint Planning
• The Sprint planning meeting is a negotiation between
the team and the product owner about what the team
will do during the next sprint. è make sure that the
commitment is reasonable
• The product owner and all team members agree on a
set of sprint goals, which is used to determine which
product backlog items to commit from the
uncommitted backlog to the sprint.
• Typically the team will then excuse the product owner
from the room and break the backlog items down into
tasks.
• No one should bring pressure on the team to over-
commit
• Time-boxed: 8 hours 83
Sprint Planning
• Normally, will be divided into 2 parts:
–Part 1: to decide what will be done in next
sprint?
• Input: the latest product Increment, projected
capacity of the Development Team during the
Sprint, and past performance of the
Development Team
• Output: Sprint Goal and PBIs in sprint.
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Sprint Planning
– Part 2: to decide how will the chosen work get
done?
• Enough work is planned during Sprint Planning for
the Development Team to forecast what it believes
it can do in the upcoming Sprint
• Work planned for the first days of the Sprint by the
Development Team is decomposed by the end of
this meeting
• If the Development Team determines it has too
much or too little work, it may renegotiate the
selected Product Backlog items with the Product
Owner
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Daily Scrum
• Daily Scrum is a meeting where the team has a short
discussion to update each other progress and surface
blocks.
• During the meeting, each team member answers three
questions:
– What have you done since yesterday?
– What are you planning to do today?
– Any impediments/stumbling blocks?
• Scrum Master notes the block and afterwards helps to
resolve them.
• Even without Scrum Master, the daily meeting still
happens
• Time-boxed: 15’; Team (R), SM (O) and PO (O)
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Sprint Review
• At the end of Sprint, Product Owner, Scrum
Master and stakeholders come together and see
the demo of what team has produced.
— An informal meeting, not a status meeting to elicit feedback and
foster collaboration
• The Product Owner gathers feedbacks from
everyone on ways to improve what has been
built.
— Inspect the Increment and adapt the Product Backlog if needed.
— Result is a revised Product Backlog
• Time-boxed: 4 hours; Team, SM, PO (R);
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Sprint Retrospective
• Retrospectives and feedback loops are at the heart
of any successful Agile/Scrum implementation.
• The Retrospective is a chance for the team to act
like a team, hearing every voice, integrating their
perspective and reaching consensus on how to
move forward in the next iteration.
• This is a mechanism for continuous improvement,
and also where critical problems are identified and
addressed or surfaces to management for
assistance.
• Time-boxed: 3 hours, Team (R), SM(R) and PO (O)
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Thank you
for your
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3: SCRUM ARTIFACTS
PRACTICES
Review for FUN
Content
• Product Requirements
– Product Backlog
– Sprint Backlog
– Backlog Refinement
• Sprint Planning
• Daily Scrum
– Kanban board
– Impediment Management (Risk Management)
• Sprint Review
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Scrum
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The Product Backlog
• Items vary in size and detail
• Is always in ranked order
• Priority items are detailed
in time for the next Sprint
Planning Meeting
• Evolves over time and Is
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Not All Features Are Created Equal!
65% of features provide little to no value,
are rarely used and/or aren’t actually
desired by the customer
The rest are OK,
but not as
important
80% of value
typically resides in
20% of features
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Why We Prioritize the Product Backlog
Delivered product function usage in a typical system
Standish Group Study Reported at XP2002 by Jim Johnson, Chairman
Always
7%
Often
13%
Sometimes
16%
Rarely
19%
Never
45%
Rarely or never
used: 64%
Often or always
used: 20%
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Product Backlog Item
• Attributes
– Description (Spec in SRS)
– Rank/Priority
– Complexity/Cost/Size (Story Points or T-Shirt)
– Optional attributes:
• Business Value ($, L/M/H),
• Owner,
• Tests, Sample results
– Other options?
• Can be defined via a “Story Card”, “User Story”,
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Example: Product Backlog Item as a Story Card

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PBI as User Story
• User stories are short, simple
descriptions of a feature told from the
perspective of the person who desires
the new capability, usually a user or
customer of the system.
• They typically follow a simple template:
– As a <type of user>, I want <some goal>
so that <some reason>.
• A story should use the I.N.V.E.S.T
acronym
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I.N.V.E.S.T
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PBI as Theme, Epic and Task
• Epic: large story, generally take more than one
or two sprints to develop and test. They are
usually broad in scope, short on details, and
will commonly need to be split into multiple,
smaller stories before the team can work on
them.
• Theme is a collection of related user stories.
• Task is simply more granular versions of the
work entailed to complete a PBI
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Definition of Done (DOD)
vs. Acceptance Criteria
• Definitions of Done applies globally (as non-
functional requirement) to all PBIs of a
product.
• If there are multiple SCRUM teams working on
the system or product release, the
development teams on all of the Scrum Teams
must mutually define the definition of “Done”.
• Acceptance Criteria pertains to a specific
items (functional requirement)
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Backlog Refinement (Grooming)
Activity in during the Sprint
• Look ahead to Product Backlog that’s coming soon
• Split large Product Backlog items into smaller ones
• Start to get more detailed understanding of items
• Begin to think about how they’ll be implemented
• PO, Team and SM do this together each Sprint, at a
time of their choosing, and for a duration of their
choosing Set a regular date and time to do this every
Sprint
• Initially provide about 10% of the time to this activity
and then Inspect and Adapt
Backlog Refinement
Activity
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Backlog Refinement
Activity
• An on-going process in which the Product Owner and the
Development Team collaborate on the details of Product
Backlog items.
– Removing stories that no longer appear relevant
– Create new user stories
– Re-assess the relative priority of stories
– Request for the most detailed product backlog items (PBI)
– Add acceptance criteria and define when this item is done
– Light-estimate PBIs
– Only focused on higher ordered PBIs
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ØDoD is not static
§ The DoD changes over time.
§ Organizational support and the team’s ability
to remove impediments may enable the
inclusion of additional activities into the
DoD for features or sprints.
§ Data from retrospectives are added to
DoD as the team learns and
understands better
Sprint Backlog
• The sprint backlog is a list
of tasks identified by the
Scrum team to be
completed during the
Scrum sprint
• During the sprint planning
meeting, the team selects
some number of
product backlog items,
usually in the form of user
stories, and identifies the
tasks necessary to
complete each user story.
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Ø Scrum team takes the Sprint Goal and
decides what tasks are necessary to complete
the selected features.
§ Tasks should be no more than 16 hours
in length; larger tasks need additional
breakdown
Ø Team self-organizes around how they’ll
meet the Sprint Goal.
Ø Scrum Masters don’t make decisions for the
team.
Ø Sprint Backlog (a list of tasks to be completed
during the Sprint is created).
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User Story Mapping
• Epics at top, stories underneath
• Shows workflow
• Can be large features, company initiatives
• Two dimension view easier to understand than
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Sprint Planning
Sprint
Planning
Meeting
1. Product Backlog
2. Existing Product
3. Business Conditions
4. Technology Conditions
Ø Sprint Planning Meeting
§ Each sprint is preceded by a planning meeting, where the User Stories
for the sprint are identified and an estimated commitment for the sprint
goal is made
1.Product Owner
2. Scrum Team
3. Customers
4. Management
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Relative Estimation
• It is hard to estimate in absolute hours
• The effort in hours could vary from developer
to developer.
• Relative Estimation consists of estimating
tasks or user stories, not separately and in
absolute units of time, but by comparison or
by grouping of items of equivalent difficulty.
• Methods:
– T-shirt Size
– Poker Planning
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Story Point Estimation
• A story point is an arbitrary
measure of effort required
to implement a user story
• A reference story is an
example of a story that we
can fairly well relate to
• A new story can be
compared to the reference
stories and we can tell
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Story Points
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• The “bigness” of a task
• Influenced by
– How hard it is
– How much of it there is
• Relative values are what is important
• A login screen is a 2. A search feature is a 8.
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Story Point Scale
Value Meaning
0 No effort required
1 No. problem, We could do
this in few hours
2
3
5 Most common use
8
13
20
40
100 Impossible, this is very large
? … Need more information
Based on Fibonacci
sequence, a recurring
organizational pattern
The story point scale has no
statistically reliable
relationship to man hours
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Velocity and Size
Ø To understand how unit less story
points would work, we need to
introduce a new concept –
VELOCITY
Ø Velocity is a measure of a team’s
rate of progress. It calculated
summing up the number of story
points completed during a sprint
Ø Therefore if a team completes 5 user
story of 3 points each, then we would
say that the team velocity is 15
Ø Now if a team completes 4 user story
of 5 points each, then we would say
that the team velocity is 20
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Use Historical Data - Where Possible
Sorted
Velocities
27
34
35
38
39
40
40
41
45
90% confidence interval,
Use 39 as your velocity
in the team and plan
your future iterations
based on this
Use Median
Other concept is to use
Yesterday’s Weather (which
means take reference of
the last couple of
iterations and plan for your
next one)
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Duration
Calculation
Size
450/15 = 30 sprints
Velocity = 15
450 story
points
Velocity as Productivity concept
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Ø Estimates are not created by a single individual on the team
Ø Agile team do not rely on a single expert to estimate
Ø Estimates are best derived collaboratively by the team,
which includes those who will do the work. There are 2
reasons for this:
o First on an agile project, one would not tend to know
who specifically would be working on a given task
o Secondly even though one may not be doing the work (like
for examples specialized testing), others may have
something to say about the estimate
Ø Additional accuracy in estimation efforts
yields very little value beyond a certain
point
Estimates are shared
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The 3 most common techniques for estimating are:
Ø Expert Opinion
o Ask an expert of the subject, as to how long will it take to do a work.
o The expert relies on their intuition or gut feel and provide an estimate
Ø Analogy
o When estimating by analogy, the estimator compares the story being
estimated with one or more other stories. In this technique one
compares the new story to the assortment of stories already
completed or estimated
Ø Disaggregation
o Refers to splitting a story or a feature into
smaller, easier to estimate pieces.
o It would be very difficult to estimate a single story of
100 days.
o The solutions to this is to break the large story or
feature into multiple smaller items and then estimate those
Deriving an Estimate
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Story Points Estimation with
Planning Poker
Simultaneously,
each person shows
estimate
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Each person
choosestheir
estimate
People with high & lowestimates
explain their reasoning
Teamdiscusses
User Story
Until the
numbersare
close
Poker Planning
1. Each estimator is given a deck of cards, Each card has a
valid estimate written on it
2. Product owner reads a story and it‘s discussed briefly
3. Each estimator selects a card which is his or her
estimate
4. Cards are shown at the same time, so that everyone can
see
5. Differences are discussed, especially the very high and
low estimates
6. Re-estimate, until an agreement on the estimate is
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As a BUYFROM ME user, I 3
want to…
As a BUY FROM ME user, I 5
want to…
As a Shipping Manager , I
want to…
5
As a BUY FROM ME user, I
want to…
2
Iteration 2Iteration 1
Code the UI 8
Write test fixture 6
Code middle tier 12
Write tests 5
“Yesterday I started on the UI;
should finish before the
end of today.”
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want to…
As a BUY FROM ME user, I 5
want to…
As a Shipping Manager , I
want to…
5
As a BUY FROM ME user, I
want to…
2
Iteration 2Iteration 1
Code the UI 8
Write test fixture 6
Code middle tier 12
Write tests 5
“Yesterday I started on the UI;
should finish before the
end of today.”
Creating
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Sprint
planning
Sprint Planning
Release Planning
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Velocity of Team A
Sprint 1
24 Points
of size
Sprint 2
22 Points
of size
Sprint 3
25 Points
of size
Average of ~ 24 Points per Sprint is the “Velocity”
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Ø During “regular” sprints target friendly first use
§ Beta customers and similar can use immediately after sprint
Ø During “stabilization sprints”
§ Team prepares a product for release
§ Useful during
– active beta periods
– when transitioning a team to Scrum
– if quality isn’t quite where it should be on an initial release
Ø Not a part of standard Scrum, but could be useful
Stabilization Sprints
Sprint 1 Sprint 2 Sprint 3 Sprint 4
Sprint 1 Sprint 2 Sprint 3
Stabilization
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Product Backlog as made available from the PO
Assume that now we should only be planning for “Must” + “Should” = 144
144 / 24 = 6 Sprints
Estimation Buffer +15%
Rework Buffer +10%
Additions Buffer +10%
= 8.3 Sprints
Pre-release
Sprint
+1
= 9.3 Sprints
= 10 Sprints
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Release Burndown Chart
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Dev
End
Releas
e
To release
full scope, 3
extra Sprints
required
To release
on time,
remove 35
points of
Backlog
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Velocity
• Velocity is a capacity planning tool
• Velocity = ∑ Story Points completed in a Sprint
• Estimated Velocity for next Sprint:
– Estimated Velocity = Averages over Last N Sprints
• Velocity normally becomes stable after five or
six sprints
• For the first sprint, just pick up number of
stories that you think the team can finish at
the end of sprint.
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Ø Are used to represent “work done”.
Ø Are wonderful Information Radiators
Ø 3 Types:
§ Sprint Burn down Chart (progress of the Sprint)
§ Release Burn down Chart (progress of release)
§ Product Burn down chart (progress of the
Product)
Burn Down Charts
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Ø Same place and time every day
Ø ScrumMaster listens for Risks and Issues / Impediments
Ø Is NOT a problem solving session
Ø Is NOT a way to collect information about WHO is behind the
schedule
Ø Is a meeting in which team members make commitments to
each other and to the ScrumMaster
Ø Is a good way for a ScrumMaster to understand the progress
of the Team
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Kanban Board
• Kanban is a flavor of agile that emphasizes the flow and
continuous delivery of work
– Visualize your work
– Limit your work in process
– Manage Flow
– Make Process Policies Explicit
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Typically takes the form of
a demo of new features or
underlying architecture
Customers / PO can provide
feedback, new ideas,
changed requirements,
changed priorities.
Same people as
planning meeting plus
any other interested
parties (e.g. end users)
Team demonstrates that
they have completed the
work as planned in the
Sprint Goal.
1 2
3 4
Sprint Review
Unfinished
work goes to
the product
backlog
Update the
product backlog
based on work
completed by
the team –
expected and
unexpected.
Reprioritizing
the product
backlog to take
advantages of
opportunities
that the
completed work
presents.
Ask for a
release Sprint
to implement
completed
work, alone or
with increments
from previous
sprints.
Requesting that
the project
progress be
sped up by
authorizing
additional
teams to work
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Ø Process improvement at end of every Sprint
Ø All team members reflect on the past sprint
Ø Make continuous process improvements
Ø Two main questions are asked in the sprint
retrospective:
o What went well during the sprint?
o What could be improved in the next sprint?
Ø Facilitated by ScrumMaster
Ø What went well, what could be improved.
Ø Scrum Master prioritizes based on team direction
Ø Team devises solution to most vexing problems
1. Set the stage
2. Gather Data
3. Generate Insights
4. Decide What to Do
5. Close The Retrospective
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• 1. Set the stage
– Start with a simple welcome and appreciation for
people’s investment of time
– Restate the purpose of the retrospective and the
goal for the session
– Define the ground rules
– Goes through the agenda
– Define the goals
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• 2. Gather Data
– Create a shared picture on what happened
– Different people have different perspectives on
the same event
– Include both facts and feelings, leads to better
thinking and action in the rest of the
retrospective.
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• 3. Generate Insights
– What to do differently/What need to be improved
– What need to be keep
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• 4. Decide What To Do
– Pick the top items and decide what to do
– Choose items that they can commit to and that
will have a positive effect.
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• 5. Close the Retrospective Meeting:
– End the retrospective decisively: don’t let people
(and their energy) dribble away
– Help your team decide how they’ll retain what
they’ve learned from the retrospective
– Look at what went well and what you could do
differently in the next retrospective
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Typical Issues that arise during Retrospective
Retrospective is a
waste of time
We never take actionon
any of the issues we
discuss
We never have time to
make improvements inour
way of working
We’re always over-
committed in everySprint
The Product Owner
pressures us intoover
committing
in Sprint Planning
None of us feel likewe’re
developing
our skills
Team is under a lot of
stress and is startingto
burn out
We never finish whatwe
committed to in Sprint
Planning
Our quality is very
poor. Open bugs are
piling up.
Everyone ismicro-managing
the team
We have a high
risk of losingteam-
members
Teammotivation
and morale
are very low
Productivity is much
LOWER than itcould
be
We don’t haveany
way of reminding
ourselves
We alwaysforget
whatever we
agreed todo
The Product Owner gavean
unrealistic delivery date to
theVP
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for your
attention!
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Content
• SCRUM Pitfalls
• SCRUM Master Characteristics
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SCRUM Master
Characteristics
• Knowledgeable
• Responsible
• Good team player
• Facilitator
• Good Observer
• Good Listener
• Servant Leader
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Team Characteristics
• Self organizing – Empowered - Collaboration
• Sharing goal and objectives
• Own its decisions & commitment
• Consensus driven
• Constructive disagreement
• Constructive feedbacks
• Trust
• Motivating team
• Believe they can solve any problem 235
SCRUM Pitfalls
• Directive Scrum Master
• Product Owner Specifies Solutions
• Assigning Tasks
• Not Getting Done
• Problem-Solving in the Daily Scrum
• Stretch Goals
• Giving up on Quality
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PO Role Not Defined or
Under-Resourced
• Stories frequently not done at Review due to
external dependencies or in-sprint surprises
• Product Owner not available to answer Team
questions in a timely fashion
• Many stories “discovered” during the Sprint
• Team feels priorities shifting too frequently
• Team gets conflicting messages from different
sources
Typical symptoms
• User stories not clear and READY at start of Sprint
• Needed information not available in time
• Poor clarity on who is responsible for providing
what information
• Unclear who leads story creation/refinement
• Product Owner role is not well-defined
• Single PO creating all backlog for multiple
teams or all customer engagement thru to
story creation for one accelerating team
• Product Owner role under-resourced
• Conflicting Team goals from multiple sources
• Unresolved competing stakeholder interests
• Product Owner role is not well-defined
Root causes
PO role not defined
• Assemble all stakeholders to decide on the single
tactical PO to work with team
• All backlog should flow to team through PO
• Set up regular Meta-Scrum meeting for
stakeholders to align without impacting team
PO role under-resourced
• Ensure that each team has its own PO
• Designate separate Strategic (epic-level market
and ROI) and Tactical (ready backlog) PO to work
closely together
• Assign cross-functional PO team
What to do about it
• Stakeholders have an aligned and compelling
vision that is maintained regularly
• This vision communicated to Team through the
PO and a consistent Product Backlog
• Backlog stories follow regular refinement process
to ensure they are ready before Sprint Planning
• Progress communicated back to stakeholders
without distracting the Team
Target end-state
Impediments
Ready
Done
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Team Working Individually
Rather than Together
• Team thinks of backlog as a shared “to do” list
where each PBI is done by only one person:
“those are my stories”
• Team comprised of Subject Matter Experts
• Bottlenecks created around a single Team
member
• One person or group typically working long hours
to keep up with demand on their time
Typical symptoms
• High level of Work in Progress (WIP)
• Each team member pulls a different story
• Stories requires skill only one Team member
possesses
• Lower priority stories started before higher
priority ones completed
• Next available Team member can’t pull next
high priority story
• High priority story depends on scarce skill
• Need for cross-training on skill
• Team often relies on one hero to “save the day”
• This person is only one who can do a task
• Team works as a group of individuals
Root causes
Pair on Stories
• Encourage collaboration on stories to increase
the quality of the end product
• Write stories that provide opportunities to pair
• “Divide and conquer” to get Done on priority
stories quicker
Cross-Train to grow Team’s skillset
• Flag scarce skills as a Team impediment
• SME works with one or two Team members to
help them learn the unique skill
• Lightweight checklists or notation stored in a
Team Wiki for reference for common tasks
What to do about it
• A least two Team members can finish each story
and ideally anyone can work on any story
• Work in Progress is low as the Team works
together on top priority stories
• Work flows easily from one to member to
another
• Team members can enjoy vacation without being
needed to deliver work!
Target end-state
Impediments
Ready
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Value to “Swarming” on the Backlog
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Context Switching Kills Productivity
Weinberg’s Table of Project Switching Waste
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Pattern: Swarming
Prioritizing Between Projects
A1 A2 A3
B1 B2 B3
C1 C2 C3
Product A
Product B
Product C
A1 A2 A3B1 B2 B3C1 C2 C3
April May June July
A1 A2 A3 B1 B2 B3 C1 C2 C3
Traditional strategy: Everything is important! Do it all at once!
January February March
Agile strategy: Prioritize & focus!
=
=
=
A
B
C
January February March April May
Adapted from Henrik Kniberg
June July
A
A
B
B
C
C
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Stories Aren’t Ready Before Sprint Planning
• Sprint Planning Meeting is tedious and takes a
long time to complete, maybe even a full day
• Team has many questions during Sprint Planning
that PO cannot answer during the meeting
• Stories are difficult to estimate at Sprint Planning
• At the end of each Sprint there are several
stories not finished or not even started
Typical symptoms
• Team writing lots of new stories at Planning
• New stories needed to deliver Sprint priorities
• Team sees upcoming work for the first time
• Team not investing in Refinement
• Lots of unplanned work emerges during the Sprint
• Research or clarification often required to begin
work planned
• Team hasn’t thought all work needed to
deliver the story
• PO needs input from external stakeholders
• Team needs more information to plan
• PO hadn’t anticipated required lead time
Root causes
SM encourage Team to look ahead
• Adopt mindset of looking forward to anticipate
questions, dependencies and risks
• Coordinate regular Refinement meetings for
Team and PO to discuss future sprints
• Coach team to utilize INVEST criteria
PO meet with Team before each Sprint
• Approach specific Team members with questions
needed to prepare Sprint Backlog
• Attend Refinement meetings with Team to
explain upcoming work, get Team clarification
• Clarify work with stakeholders before Planning
What to do about it
• Shorter and more effective Sprint Planning
meetings (1 hour or less per week of Sprint)
• Few “surprises” during Sprint that could have
been avoided with better planning
• Team finishes planned work ~80%+ of Sprints
• Team and PO work together to Refine backlog
(expect 5-10% of the Team’s time)
Target end-state
Impediments
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Team Works to Maintain the Right
Progression of Backlog Definition
V V V
2009
Q4
2008
2008
2008
May
2008
Apr
20082013
2013
June
2013
Q3
2013
2013
2013
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User Story Readiness Progression
IncreasingReadiness
New Card
Nursery
• All inputs accepted
• Promotion: Product Owner determines this story
matches product goals
Elementary
School
• Analysts decompose
• User experience experts research context
• Business alignment needs identiﬁed
• Promotion: Matches release goals
Junior High
• Card details, acceptance criteria, UI pre-work
(wireframes, visual and content prototypes
• Legal & compliance issues reviewed
• Promotion: Alignment with key stakeholders on
features, functions, and visuals
High School
• Ready for sprint
• Candidates for Release Planning/Sprint Planning
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User Story Readiness Guidelines
Immediately actionable
Negotiable
Valuable
Estimable
Sized to fit
Testable
Modified from Bill Wake – www.xp123.com
Product
Backlog
Product vision
A
B
C C
A B C
GUI
Client
Server
DB schema
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PBIs Not Broken Down into Small
Vertical Slices of Functionality
• Stories usually involve only one discipline or
team member (function-centered stories)
• Stories difficult for team to act on immediately
• Several stories must be completed before
functionality would create value for customers
• Multiple days pass without team completing a
story (uneven burndown)
• Actual work often much greater than estimated
Typical symptoms
• Team struggles to work together on PBIs
• PBI definition includes only one person/
functionality from team
• Defined from team not user
perspective
• Multiple stories must be completed before
incremental functionality ships
• PBIs address only one functional element
• Actual work often much greater than estimated
• Not all team members participate in estimation
for function-centered PBIs
• Team members think “it isn’t my work”
• PBI not defined as vertical
functionality
Root causes
PBI’s Not Defined As Vertical Slices of
Functionality
• Make sure every PBI is in “User Story” form, or
at least Team can identify how PBI generates
incremental customer value
• Get entire team to agree on clear Definition of
Ready for all Backlog items that aligns with
target end state
• Have customers participate in Sprint Review to
reinforce customer value perspective
• Have PO spend more time with Customer and/or
get training on writing better user stories
What to do about it
• Each completed Story delivers a “potentially
shippable” increment of value to customer
• Multiple team members can “swarm” together on
priority stories
• Every Story is immediately clear and actionable
• Sprint burns down relatively smoothly
• Release Plans are relatively accurate
• Velocity is increasing roughly 10% per Sprint
Target end-state
Impediments
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Break Epics into Stories
As a frequent flyer I
want to book flights
customized to my
preferences, so I
save time
• As a frequent flyer
I want to book a trip
using miles so that I
can save money
• As a frequent flyer
I want to easily book
a trip I take often So
that I can save time
• As a premium frequent
flyer I want to request an
upgrade So I can be
more comfortable
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Team Over-Commits to Work
(or is Committed by Someone Else)
• At the end of most Sprints, there are unstarted
stories or stories not meeting Definition of Done
• Team is working at a unsustainable pace to try
and complete each sprint
• The number of stories “in progress” remains high
throughout the sprint
• Team feels “behind schedule” or under pressure
to finish more output quickly
Typical symptoms
• Team is not completing most Sprints
• Team over commits during Sprint Planning
• Team guesses about how much work it can
complete each sprint
• Team is not tracking velocity
• Team is working at an unsustainable pace to
complete each sprint
• The team is overcommitted
• Team following a plan that dictates what
must be done by when
• Team does not control what work is
brought into the Sprint
• Team is not self-organizing
Root causes
Team not tracking Velocity
• Each story brought into the sprint should be
estimated in points
• All finished points totaled at end of every Sprint
• Implement Yesterday’s Weather Pattern for
Sprint Planning
Team is not self-organizing
• Align with leadership on expectations for
empowered teams
• Secure buy in that reality on the ground trumps
the plan
• Team estimates work and commits to how many
stories to bring into the sprint
What to do about it
• Team is tracking Velocity each sprint and all team
members know Velocity if asked
• Team pulls in work equal to the average actual
points completed in recent sprints
• Team and PO work together to prepare for Sprint
Planning
• Team decides, and is not told, how much work to
pull into the Sprint Backlog
Target end-state
Impediments
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Pattern: Yesterdayʼs Weather
How much work to pull into the Sprint
• Start by tracking Velocity by
estimating stories in points,
not hours.
• At the end of the sprint, tally
how many story points have
met the definition of done.
• Use the average actual velocity
during Sprint Planning to
estimate how many points the
team will likely complete in the
upcoming sprint.
To Do WIP Done
3 5 8
1 8
5
5
3
3
1
V=33
S1:33 | S2: 40 | S3: 38
Average Velocity = 37
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Pattern: Teams that Finish Early
Accelerate Faster
• If team completes Sprint
Backlog before end of the
Sprint, they should pull the
next Ready item from the
top of the Product Backlog
• Velocity for the Sprint is the
total points completed
(including pulled stories)
8
5
5
3
5
5
8
5
3
5
Product
Backlog
Done!
Done!
Done!
Done!
Original
Sprint
Planning
Additional
Pulled item
Kaizen
8
5
5
3
Middle of Sprint
Sprint
Backlog
5
• Experience shows teams that
use this approach increase
Velocity faster than those
that try to pull too much
work initially
White Paper at: http://scruminc.com/FinishEarlyAccelerateFasterHICSS2014.pdf252
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Found Work Interrupts
Sprint Regularly
• Team frequently (>20%) fails to complete
planned work by end of Sprint
• Team discovers significant unplanned work or
receives frequent “surprise” requests from
stakeholders that must be addressed right away
• Team feels like priorities are constantly shifting
• Planned stories don’t move to Done
• Burndown chart is flat
Typical symptoms
• Significant amounts of “found work” enters sprint
• Team not anticipating what is needed to
complete work
• Team is new, or working in unfamiliar area
• Team hasn’t given room in Sprint for
learning
• Build in “buffer” for found work
• Frequent surprise requests from stakeholders
• Stakeholders asking Team directly for work
• No formal process for handling “urgent”
requests – informal requests add up
• Need process for managing,
prioritizing and limiting mid-sprint
external requests
Root causes
Found works interrupts Sprint regularly
• Implement the Interrupt Pattern and include
Sprint buffer in categories where found work is
expected
• Use Retrospective to identify ways to anticipate
found work better
External stakeholder requests displace planned work
• Confront leadership with the effect of
interruptions
• Implement the Interrupt Pattern, include limited
buffer for surprise requests, and put PO in path
to defend team
What to do about it
• Team anticipates some level of unplanned work,
and allows for this in Sprint Backlog
• Unplanned work is limited to allow planned work
to proceed to completion
• Team finishes all planned work early, and is able
to pull additional stories from Product Backlog
• Velocity increases ~10% each Sprint as planning
and execution improve
Target end-state
Impediments
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If Your Backlog Looks Like This, You Have a
Problem with Interrupts!
Source: Revised after Henrik Kniberg
©2013ScrumInc.Pattern: The Interrupt Pattern
Dealing with the unexpected
8
5
5
3
5
5
8
5
3
5
Product
Backlog
Beginning of sprint
Kaizen
8
5
5
3
Sprint
Backlog
5 Buffer
Support
Management
Sales
Now
Later
Low Priority
On Buffer Overflow ABORT, Replan, Dates Slip
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Transform to Agile (Working Space)
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Transform to Agile (Working Space)
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Transform to Agile (information radiator)
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Transform to Agile (CI/CD)
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• Versioning Server è Subversion and Rule?
• Analysis Code è Coding Process?
• CI/CD in some commands
• Team/PO/Stakeholder
• “Solution” Server è “CI Env” for Tester, “Feedback
Env” for PO, Users and Stateholders
… to be continued or TBD
Transform to Agile (For Team)
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• “SACOM” Scrum Process
• DOR – Definition of Ready
• DOD – Definition of Done
• Team Rules
• Impediment Management
• Agile Tooling
• prefer low-tech, high-touch tools
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• Don’t start on Monday
• Test Driven Development
• Pair Programming
• Collaboration Games
• Generally Accepted Scrum Practices (GASPs)
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Agile Testing
Agile Testing

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Master Craftsman
• Passionate about the
craft
• Guides a team of
journeymen and
apprentices
• Infects the team with
enthusiasm and passion
for the craft
• Has delivered many
successful, robust, high-
quality applications
• Is recognized by users,
customers and developers
• Is responsible for
passing on the craft
Journeyman
• Has worked for several
years with a master
• Coaches apprentices
• Learns from masters
• Spreads knowledge
between masters
• Focused on delivering
applications
• Some journeyman will
become a master one
day, but many will remain
journeymen the rest of
their careers
Apprentice
• Contribute to simple
tasks
• Learn from journeyman
• Situated learning
• Review work of the
master
• Developing through
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• Standard User Story and Story Point
• Estimation Methods:
• Planning pocker: www.planningpoker.com or
https://www.amazon.com/Agile-Sizing-Cards-
Planning-Estimating/dp/B00IM4ETNK
• Product Backlog and
Sprint Backlog use JIRA or
Trello
• Velocity (points)
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Transform to Agile (For PO)
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• Product Vision (Story Map)
• Stategy for specifying Value
• Release Planning
• SRS
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Agile and more …
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Agile and more …
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1. Agile Principles and Mindset: This domain focuses on the agile
mindset, its fundamental values and principles, the agile
methodologies, and agile leadership
2. Value-Driven Delivery: This domain deals with maximizing
business value, including prioritization, incremental delivery,
testing, and validation
3. Stakeholder Engagement: This domain focuses on working
with the project stakeholders, including establishing a shared
vision, collaboration, communication, and interpersonal skills
4. Team Performance: This domain focuses on building high-
performing teams, including how teams form and develop
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Agile and more
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5. Adaptive Planning: This domain deals with sizing, estimating,
and planning, including adaptive planning, progressive
elaboration, value-based analysis and decomposition, and
release and iteration planning
6. Problem Detection and Resolution: This domain deals with the
agile practices used to prevent, identify, and resolve threats
and issues, including catching problems early, tracking defects,
managing risk, and engaging the team in solving problems
7. Continuous Improvement (Product, Process, People): This final
domain focuses on continuous improvement in the areas of
product, process, and people, including process analysis and
tailoring, product feedback methods, reviews, and
retrospectives
Conclusion
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o Agile Mindset
o Scrum Framework
v Scrum values, pillars
v Scrum principles
v Scrum roles
v Scrum events
v Scrum artifacts
o Scrum Pitfalls
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Next …
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o Scrum for PO
o Scrum for SM
o Nexus
Next …
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o LESS

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- Esther Derby
“A group full of T-shaped people is
more flexible about the kind of
work they can take on than a group
made up of specialists”
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- Rowan Bunning
“… the Agile movement in software is
part of a larger movement towards
more humane and dynamic
workplaces in the 21st century”
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- Woody Zuill
“If you adopt only one #agile
practice, let it be retrospectives.
Everything else will follow”
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- Alistair Cockburn
Rather than say “requirements”,
say “deciding what to build.” The
verb phrase works, the noun
phrase doesn’t
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- Kent Beck
Software development is not a
rational process. It's a process
made by people with feelings with
bodies and with thinking. And by
putting all those together I can be a
more eﬀective software developer
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Stay Connected
Thank you
for your
attention!

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REVIEW 1
The Agile Manifesto* (Agile Values)
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right,
we value the items on the left more.”
(2001, Kent Beck, Mike Beedle, Arie van Bennekum, Alistair Cockburn, Ward Cunningham,
Martin Fowler, James Grenning, Jim Highsmith, Andrew Hunt, Ron Jeffries, Jon Kern,
Brian Marick, Robert C. Martin, Steve Mellor, Ken Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland, Dave Thomas
* www.agilemanifesto.org
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Agile Practices
• Pair programming
• Continuous integration
• Feedback loop
• Daily meeting
• Code Review
• Test-Design Driven (TDD)
• Exploration Test
• Refactoring code
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SCRUM Values
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SCRUM Pillars
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Agile “Myths”
• Agile is anti-documentation.
• Agile is anti-planning.
• Agile is undisciplined.
• Agile requires a lot of rework.
• Agile is anti-architecture.
• Agile doesn't scale.
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SCRUM Framework
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SCRUM with Quizziz
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Roles and Responsibility
• Ensure Scrum is followed
• Attend Sprint Retrospective
• Attend Daily meeting
• Attend Sprint Planning
• Attend Sprint Review
• Changing the Product Scope
• Prioritizes Product Backlog
• Prioritizes Sprint Backlog
• Writes User Stories
• Facilitates Meetings
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Roles and Responsibility
• Builds the Product Backlog
• Remove Impediments
• Motivates the team
• Protects the team from outside distraction
• Chooses the Amount of Work in a Sprint
• Commits to Completing the Sprint
• Points out other people’s mistake
• Inspects and Adapts to Improve their Performance
• Manages the Team
• Recognizes Impediments
• Keeps Stakeholders Informed
• Design, build and test software solution 301
Videos for Scrum Master
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