SCRUM Principles, 1st SCRUM meetup Athens 9 Oct. 2013

1. SCRUM Principles
Yiannis Mavraganis
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2. What do you hope
to get from this Meetup?
An excellent answer I got:
“Stop projects from failing so easily.”
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3. Agile Philosophy
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4. The most popular agile method
“… the team tries to go the
distance as a unit, passing the
ball back and forth". 1986 Harvard
Business Review article “The New New Product
Development Game” by Hirotaka Takeuchi and
Ikujiro Nonaka
Simple lightweight framework to manage complex product
development, founded on empirical process control theory.
3 Pillars:
• Transparency,
• Inspection,
• Adaptation
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5. Team Work analogies
“A phalanx was, therefore, very densely packed
…. If its allowed to compare war with sport: a
hoplite battle was something like a "scrum" in a
rugby match”.
“…the coordinated teamwork enables the
system as a whole (here, the boat) to achieve
its optimum performance.” By Sam Guckenheimer
and Neno Loje
"Especially in 1974 and 1988, Holland could defend as
a whole and attack as a whole…”
If a left back started attacking a centre back
would fill in his place and a midfielder would take the
place of the centre back so the team would retain it’s
organisational structure.
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6. SCRUM Benefits
• Less risk
• Early realization of value
• Increased productivity, through better
communication and transparency
• Reveals inefficiencies, so that you can
improve
• Better rhythm!
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7. 3 Roles
Product Owner
5 Events
3 Artifacts
Daily SCRUM
Product Backlog
Sprint
Sprint Backlog
SCRUM Master
Development Team
Sprint
Planning, Review, Retrospectives
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Increment
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9. Team characteristics
Small,
autonomous,
self organized,
cross functional
deliver products
iteratively and incrementally,
maximizing opportunities for feedback
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10. Fundamental Points
• Build Quality In!
“Technical debt can kill you…”
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At the end of each sprint: potentially
shippable product increment, according to
Definition of Done
• Sprint Goal
Development Team:
Increment.
why
it is building the
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11. Advice
“…implementing only parts of Scrum is possible,
the result is not Scrum”
SCRUM Guide (SCRUM.org)
Simple to understand but difficult to master,
consider it like a diet…
(needs discipline, you cannot ignore a certain
aspect)
And do not forget it is a culture game!
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12. “The best and fastest way to learn a
sport is to watch and imitate a
champion.”
Jean-Claude Killy. Triple Olympic champion
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13. Thank you!
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