Kanban India 2023 www.kanbanindia.org

1. Kanban India 2023
Scrum Master's K.R.A. (Key Responsibility Area)
Priyank Pathak
INNOVATION ROOTS ®
agilecommunity.org
Agile Network India
Kanban India

2. Alternate session title:
Beyond Meetings

3. Alternate session title (2) :
Beyond a Board

4. My key learning(s) …
The typical day in Scrum Master’s life: Meetings and Impediments Resolution
The better way to manage scrum: Applying Kanban Concepts on Top on Scrum
Applying:
#1 The Concept of Flow Efficiency
# The Concept of Content Quality

5. #1 The Concept of Flow

6. The Scrum Pictures

7. The Scrum Sprint, Week and a Day (Calendar)
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day10
Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum
Sprint Planning
Backlog
Refinement
Sprint Review
Sprint
Retrospective

8. The Actual Calendar
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day10
Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum
Sprint Planning Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting
Meeting Meeting Backlog
Refinement
Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting
Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Sprint Review
Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Sprint
Retrospective
Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting
Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting

9. And few days were like …
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day10
Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum
Sprint Planning
Important
Meeting
Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting
Meeting Meeting Backlog
Refinement
All Heads Town
Hall
Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting
Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Sprint Review
Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Sprint
Retrospective
Client Visit
Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting
Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting

10. Red vs Green …
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day10
Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum
Sprint Planning
Important
Meeting
Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting
Meeting Meeting Backlog
Refinement
All Heads Town
Hall
Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting
Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Sprint Review
Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Sprint
Retrospective
Client Visit
Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting
Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting

11. Where the time is going?
Developer Manager

12. Meeting Sandwich
Meeting
Meeting
Meeting
Meeting
Meeting
Meeting
Meeting
Meeting
Meeting
Meeting

13. Productive: Focused Working Hours & Zones
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day10
Important
Meeting
Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Daily Scrum Sprint Review
Sprint Planning Meeting Backlog
Refinement
All heads Town
Hall
Meeting Meeting Sprint
Retrospective
Client Visit
Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting
Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting

14. K.R.A.
Productive : Focused Working Hours & Zones
Enable Effective Cadence Flow
Allocate Capacity and Create Swimlanes for Services
Use board and Visualize the Workflow.

15. Upstream to Downstream Connected Flow & Cadence
Delivery
Team(s)
Requirement
Source(s)
Backlog Prioritization
& Planning

16. The Scrum Sprint, Week and a Day (Calendar to
Cadence)

17. #2 The Concept of Content
#1 The Concept of Flow
+

18. The Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, The Increment
(Content)
Product
Backlog
Sprint
Backlog
Increme
nt

19. The Backlog item’s reality …

20. The Checkpoints: Iterative and Incremental

21. Flow Efficiency

22. Improve the Flow Efficiency : RCA & Eliminating the
waiting time
Product
Backlog
Sprint
Backlog
Increme
nt
Wait Wait
Wait
X X

23. K.R.A.
Improve the Flow Efficiency: RCA & Eliminating the waiting
time
Improve Content Quality at every step (Quality of Input
defines Quality of Output)
Making the explicit policies
Implement Exit and Entry Criteria at workflow steps

24. Entry and Exit Criteria: Ready, Commit, Done,
Acceptance, Release Criteria
Product
Backlog
Sprint
Backlog
Increme
nt
Ready Release

26. Implement feedback loops
Continuous improvement

27. Thank you
priyank@innovationroots.com