Using Scrum at Key Ingredient Corporation

1. Key Ingredient
Scrum Training
by Lucina Stricko, CSPO
Presented on September 12, 2014

2. Recap

3. What is Scrum?

4. Scrum is
A light-weight, iterative and
incremental Agile project
management framework

5. Scrum at a glance

6. Individuals in Scrum Team
Product Manager

7. Individuals in Scrum
ScrumMaster

8. Individuals in Scrum
Scrum Team - self-organizing

9. Individuals in Scrum
Scrum Team - cross-functioning “T-shaped”
team members

10. Individuals
Ideal Size - 7 +/- 2
2 pizza team

11. Interactions are time-boxed
• Stakeholders Meeting [1 hour per Sprint]
• Planning Meetings [depends on length of Sprint]
• Daily Scrum/Standups [15 minutes per day]
• Sprint Review/Demo [1 hour per Sprint]
• Retrospective [1 hour per Sprint]

12. Stakeholders Meeting
• Seek to Understand Business Objectives
• Prioritize Items in Backlog based on Business Value
• Manage Stakeholder Expectations…
• You cannot promise when something will get done, only that it will get
added to the backlog!
• If they think it’s the “highest priority” you need to get stakeholders to
AGREE that it’s higher than the top things on the stakeholder…

13. Planning Meeting
• Grooming - Break down large stories (EPICs) into smaller
tasks (Children)
• Estimate tasks
• Commit to achieving the Sprint Goal
• Commit to completing tickets before the end of the Sprint

14. Example of
an EPIC

15. Example of
Associated
Children
Tickets

16. Anatomy of a User Story

17. Example of
a Clear
User Story

18. Estimating Tickets
• Estimating in Story Points, T-Shirt Sizes
• What Story Points Tell Us
• Why Not Estimate in Hours?

19. Choosing Estimating Games
• Fibonacci Cards
• 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89
• “as a feature increases in size, our inherent ability to accurately
estimate its size diminishes”
• http://pmstudent.com/implementing-scrum-the-basics-part-2/
• Planning Poker
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_poker

20. Anatomy of a Scrum Board

21. Pull vs. Push

22. Daily Standups

23. Daily Standups - Time Boxed [15m]

24. Sprint Review (aka Demo Time)

25. Burn Down Chart

26. Retrospective
• In Practice… these can be somewhat difficult to manage.
• Focus on specific things that went well & didn’t go well.
• Focus on the work, not on the person!
• Try to get to 1 thing we might want to do better next time.
• The ScrumMaster will remind the team to keep working on
that item during the sprint.
• At the next Retro, you will have a victory to celebrate!

27. Scrum
VS
Kanban

28. Commitment in Scrum

29. Problems with Scrum
1. Management Doesn’t Get it!!! (Imposed Deadlines/etc)
2. Requires Small Teams, hard to grow…
3. Co-location (problems with remote teams/members)…. using online tools
and having a dedicated ScrumMaster with the team helps
4. Planning takes a lot of collaboration
5. Everyone wants to solve problems in standup - take it offline
6. Cross-functioning not always possible… teams not all with same skills.
7. Unshippable Sprint Results - avoidable with thorough planning
8. Training new Team members - forming new team interrupts with norming and
performing
9. Interruptions/Urgent changes - allowed as one “Silver Bullet” at a time

30. Scrum: Quick-Reference Guide
Pig = Directly committed to developing products (see 3 Scrum Roles)
Chicken = Involved but not in the trenches (Customers, Managers, Marketing)
3 Scrum Roles: 3 Scrum Ceremonies: 3 More Ceremonies:
Product Owner Sprint Planning Meeting Stakeholders Meeting
ScrumMaster Daily Scrum / Standup Backlog Grooming
Scrum Team Retrospective Demonstrations
3 Artifacts: 3 Best Practices: 3 Agile Acronyms:
Product Backlog User Stories TDD Test Driven Development
Sprint Backlog Estimating/Planning Poker MVP
Burndown Chart Scrum Board YAGNI

31. Doing Scrum vs Being Agile
Please see “Becoming an Agile Team Member” from Planigle -
http://www.planigle.com/presentations/Becoming-an-Agile-Team-Member.pdf

32. Questions?
Feedback?

33. Source References
● slide 2 http://www.agile-pm.org/
● slide 3 http://www.votility.com/
● slide 5 http://scrummethodology.com/
● slide 6 http://www.thousandtyone.com/blog/HowBigAreYourTeams.aspx
● slide 16 http://alaverdyan.com
● slide 21 https://www.outsystems.com/blog/2010/11/scrum-vs-kanban.html
● slide 22 http://stevenhollidge.blogspot.com/2011/10/agile-principles.html
● slide 24 http://tatiyants.com/geek-comic-daily-standups/
● slide 25 http://www.agiledocs.com/new-questions-for-daily-scrum-standups/
● slide 26 http://www.rodrigodetoledo.com/
● slides: 14, 15, 16, 17, 28, 29
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