1. Definition of READY
When are you able to start?
Agile Eastern Europe 2011, Kiev,
September 2011
Felix Rüssel

2. Creating Value & Problem in Sprints
How Value is created Usual Problems in Sprints
 Understand WHY and  No clear description, criteria,
goals
WHAT to do
 Not possble to test/evaluate if
 Have a clue HOW it be can goal has been met
 It CAN be done (READY!)  Missing Dates
(suprise!surpise!)
 It is being DONE
 It is really DONE  Risiks unknown
 Dependencies: Teams, external
 And it is required stakeholders, technical
constrains, …
 So it creates Value  Owner (business sponsor)
unknown

3. READY & DONE on the Scrum Board
Sprint Backlog
READY
DONE
Committed
Sprint Acceptance
Planning
Development Reviewed Testing (PO) Release

4. READY & DONE
impediment
READY
DONE
Incre
PBL DoR SBL IBL DoD ment

5. READY as Quality Gate
 READY as pre-condition for „Hyperproductivity“
 Responsible: Product Owner
 May delegate work to make stories READY
 Team: Has right during Planning to refuse to commit
on stories that are not READY
 Scrum Master enforces rules
 Helps PO to increase the rate of READY stories
 Scrum Master interferes when non-READY stories are discussed in
a wild manner.

6. How Product Backlog should look like
Current Sprint
(Stories, Tasks)
READY
(Stories)
Preparing
(Epics -> Stories)
NEW
(Ideas, Epics, Themes)

7. How it becomes READY
Story
Template
Add Details
Sprint Backlog
READY
Committed
Discuss! Discuss! Discuss! Sprint
Planning
Story
Epic
Story
Story Story
Story
Story
Story
Details Details Details
Details, Details, Details

8. Results & Rate of Adoption
 Impact of READY on effort /  Definition of Ready / READY State
variance  Discussion started on conferences:
Beginnig 2009
 Adoption rate still very low
Results of a small research
Mailinglist „scrumdevelopment“
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumd
evelopment
 „definition of done“: 1001
 „definition of ready“: 6
 „ready state“: 14
Source:
http://agile2009.org/files/session_pdfs/Going%20from%20Goo
d%20to%20Great%20with%20Scrum%20Session.PDF

9. WHO?
Felix Rüssel
 Consultant for agile Methods, project management and
virtual teams
 www.agile-rescue.com
 Nearshore Scrum Teams
 www.agile-nearshoring.com
 Agile methods since 2004
 German Blog (~2008): www.armerkater.de