Presentation to a webinar Scrum Basics

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Scrum Basics
Agile Practice

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Introduction
Svetlana Mukhina
ICAgile ICP, ICP-ATF, ICP-BVA, PSM I
Agile and Career Coach at Luxoft Agile Practice
Experience: 12+ years in IT, Project and department management,
Computer Linguistics, Technical Writing, Quality Assurance
Interests: Project management, Agile transformation, Career and
performance coaching, Psychology
Hobbies: Horse riding, music, poker, travelling
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/svetlanamukhina

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Session Plan
 How Scrum relates to Agile?
 Can the team be Agile, but don’t practice Scrum?
 Scrum Structure
 Scrum Components
 Events: Sprint, PBR, Planning, Standup, Review, Retrospective;
 Roles: PO, SM, Development Team;
 Artifacts: Product backlog, Sprint backlog, Shippable increment;
 Metrics: Capacity and Velocity
 Top 3 questions about Scrum
 Way forward

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What is Agile?

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That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.
from ICAgile, Agile Team Facilitation

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from ICAgile, Agile Team Facilitation

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from ICAgile, Agile Team Facilitation

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from ICAgile, Agile Team Facilitation

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What is Scrum?

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Scrum Structure
Courage
Respect
Commitment
Openness
Focus

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Scrum Components
ARTIFACTS
EVENTS
ROLES
Sprint Pulse
Scrum Master
Product Owner
Development Team
Main PBR Local PBR Local PBR Local PBR Local PBR
Increment
Sprint BacklogProduct Backlog

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Scrum Team
Scrum Master
Product Owner Development Team
• Cross-functional and self-organizing
• No titles other than Developer
• No sub-teams
• Owns Daily Scrum
• Owns Sprint Backlog
• 7±2 in size
• Tracks the total work remaining every day
• Delivers useable increment each Sprint
• Maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Dev. team.
• Managing Product Backlog
• Is one person, not a committee
• Ordering Product Backlog Items
• Clearly expressing PBIs
• Ensure Development Team understands PBIs to the level needed
• Only person who can cancel the Sprint
• Owner of Product Backlog Refinement meetings
• Tracks the amount of work remaining at least every Sprint Review
• Understanding and practicing Agility
• Facilitating Scrum Events as needed
• Coaching Development Team
• Removing impediments
• Leading and coaching organization in Scrum adoption
• Causing change that increases productivity
• Helping stakeholders understand Scrum and empiricism
• Ensuring Scrum rules are followed
• Increases the transparency of the artifacts
• Helps PO in finding effective Product Backlog techniques

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Scrum Events
Main PBR Local PBR Local PBR Local PBR Local PBR
• is a time-box of one month or less
• has a goal.
• new Sprint starts after the conclusion of the previous one.
• is 15-minute time-boxed
• is held at the same time and place each day
• consists of 3 questions to inspect progress
toward the Sprint Goal
• Is the act of adding detail, estimates, and order to PBIs
• Scrum Team decides how and when refinement is done
• PBR usually consumes >10% of the capacity of Dev. team
• is done by the collaborative work of the entire Scrum Team.
• is time-boxed to a maximum of eight hours for a one-month Sprint.
• answers two questions:
• what can be delivered in the Increment?
• how will the work needed to deliver the Increment?
• Is held at the end of the Sprint to inspect the Done work
• All Scrum Team is present on Review
• Dev. team demonstrates “Done” User Stories to PO
• Occurs after the Review and prior to the next Planning
• Discuss what went well and what can be improved
• Create a plan for implementing improvement
Planning
Standup
Review
Sprint
PBR Retrospective

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Scrum Artifacts
Increment
Sprint Backlog
Product
Backlog
• is an ordered list of everything that might be needed in the product
• Is single source of requirements for any changes to be made to the product;
• is never complete. It evolves as the product and its environment evolves
• is dynamic - changes in business requirements, market conditions, or
technology may cause changes in it
• higher ordered PBI are usually clearer than lower ordered ones.
• is the set of PBI selected for the Sprint
• is plan for delivering the product Increment
• makes visible all of the work for the Sprint
• Dev. team modifies the Sprint Backlog throughout the Sprint
• as new work is required, the Dev. team adds it to Sprint
Backlog
• only Dev. team can change its Sprint Backlog during a Sprint.
• it belongs solely to the Dev. team.
• The Increment is the sum of all PBIs completed during a
Sprint and value of the increments of all previous Sprints.
• At the end of a Sprint, the new Increment must be “Done”
• Definition of Done document is used to create increment

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Capacity and Velocity
• Capacity – number of ideal hours available during next sprint
• Forecast
• Velocity – number of story point completed during previous sprint
• Experience
 Using velocity and capacity all together helps to align workload basing on the past experience and
future availability of development time, it make planning more accurate and results more expectable

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Top 3 Questions about Scrum
 Why do we need Scrum?
 Does Scrum work?
 Do you believe in Scrum?

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Way Forward – Scrum Guide
Scrum Guide - http://www.scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html

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Way Forward - Open Assessments
Open Assessments - https://www.scrum.org/Assessments/Open-Assessments

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Way Forward – Agile Training
Professional Scrum Master
• About - https://www.scrum.org/Courses/Professional-Scrum-Master
• How to apply:
• Luxoft - https://inthr.luxoft.com/IntHRWebApp/aspx_PTC/CreateRequestInternal.aspx?Course=SDP-033
• Non-Luxoft – email me smukhina@luxoft.com
ICAgile Agile Fundamentals
• About – https://icagile.com/icagile-certified-professional
• How to apply:
• Luxoft – https://inthr.luxoft.com/IntHRWebApp/aspx_PTC/CreateRequestInternal.aspx?Course=SDP-031
• Non-Luxoft – email me smukhina@luxoft.com

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Overview of Scrum for your Team
Invite Agile coach for 1 hour session
• Make sure your management and team don’t mind coaching
• Write me email smukhina@luxoft.com with the request