'SCRUM is an agile project management framework, not a methodology.' This might actually be one of the first things you hear once you intend to dabble with SCRUM. Yet what it exactly means might be elusive, as it can be hard to find practical information and examples of how to implement it in your organization. In this talk I have shared how we implemented SCRUM in our organization and what we have experienced during this process. This way I wanted to show a practical example of how it may be done and what the benefits were to our team.

1. SCRUM
in the
Wild
Photo taken by Maree Reveley (aka Somerslea)

2. Technical Lead at Unet B.V.
Mike van Riel
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Using PHP for 8 years
http://joind.in/talk/view/1506
@mvriel ●
Working with SCRUM for 3 years
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3. Introduction
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4. Who are you?
Photo taken by Xavier de Cock
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5. What is SCRUM?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/darwinbell/
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6. Framework, not methodology
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vinayshivakumar/3194015535/
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7. Believe
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jstar/207421635/
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8. Traditional METHODS vs. SCRUM
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9. Waterfall
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Originates from hardware industry
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Set in stone, not flexible
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No feedback
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False feeling of knowing
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Works with large teams
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10. One release to rule them all
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11. SCRUM
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Originates from product development
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Timeboxed iterations
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Maximum feedback
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Provides great insight
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Seldom works with large teams
http://blog.3months.com/2010/01/10/illustrating-scrum-a-new-and-improved-scrum-diagram/
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12. Release early, release often
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13. History
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevan/
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14. Why did we choose to go for scrum
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Previous method did not fulfill our wishes
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Requirements change fast and hard
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We wanted more introspection and control
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Small team, 6 developers and 1 project manager
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Manageable intermittant releases
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To not reinvent the wheel
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sravi_in/3171545912/
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15. How did we implement it?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/2512983749/
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16. One step at a time
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18. ROLES
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20. Planning poker
http://www.flickr.com/photos/june29/3754566093/
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22. Sprint backlog
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oberazzi/318947873/
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23. http://www.flickr.com/photos/roolrool/4468175996/
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24. Burndown chart
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oberazzi/318947873/
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25. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jnicho02/2805260361/
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26. http://www.flickr.com/photos/porras/3084218023/
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27. http://www.flickr.com/photos/elecnix/4120841676/
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29. What more is there?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/albany_tim/3536902765/
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30. Obstacles
http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxypar4/1004464889/
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31. Questions?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oberazzi/318947873/
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32. Conclusion
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mugley/2214327028/
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33. Mike van Riel
mike.vanriel@naenius.com
@mvriel
http://blog.naenius.com
http://joind.in/talk/view/1506
Links
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http://www.scrumalliance.org/
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyNPeTn8fpo, Presentation by Ken Schwaber at Google
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http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/scrum-xp-from-the-trenches, Free book
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development), The Wikipedia article about SCRUM
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http://www.meetup.com/nlscrum/, Dutch SCRUM user group
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http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/, Mountain goat software
Tools
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http://www.danube.com/scrumworks, ScrumWorks
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http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/, Jira
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http://www.pivotaltracker.com/, Pivotal Tracker
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http://docs.google.com/, Google docs
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