Scrum is the most applied method for Agile software development. Depending on the source, 70-90% of all Agile teams worldwide say they use Scrum. The primary reason for the success is in the people using Scrum to help them manage and create software products, better.
Can we say we’re Done with Scrum? Or do we have many challenges in implementing Scrum?
The key to employing Scrum professionally is creating Done Increments of product, where “Done” actually means “releasable in production.” It might take another two decades to actually get there.
Read https://guntherverheyen.com/2016/05/26/the-future-present-of-scrum/
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Scrum Day Europe 2016 - The Future Present of Scrum
1. by Gunther Verheyen
Scrum. Connector, writer, speaker,
humanizer.
The Future Present of Scrum
Are we Done yet?
Scrum Day Europe V
Amsterdam, Netherlands
7 July 2016
3. 3Gunther Verheyen – Ullizee-Inc, 2016 @Ullizee
Is that a Gorilla I see over there?
Source: https://versionone.com/pdf/VersionOne-10th-Annual-State-of-Agile-Report.pdf
5. 5Gunther Verheyen – Ullizee-Inc, 2016 @Ullizee
What is the #1 challenge of your
team, department or
organization moving forward
with Scrum?
What is stopping you?
Does your Scrum Master know? Does
management know?
Looking at the journey ahead
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The future is unwritten. Our journey faces many challenges.
Enacting
Scrum
People
Ceremonies
Principles
and Values
Technical
Excellence
Done
Increments
The power
of the
possible
product
Maximize
Scrum
Scaled
Scrum
Scrum
Studio
Upstream
adoption
Professional Scrum
Creating releasable
software (every Sprint)
Increasing
effectiveness (not
dysfunctions)
Scrum in the enterprise
Growing Product Ownership
Humanizing the workplace
(It starts and ends with people)
8. “If Scrum was to be reduced to one
purpose, and one purpose only, that is
the creation of a Done Increment in a
Sprint.”
Source: Gunther Verheyen, “Done is a crucial part of Scrum, actually”
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A system called ‘Scrum’, the path we travel.
Product
Backlog
Valuable
Increment
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One team delivering product (the basics)
1. A team pulls
work from one
Product
Backlog.
2. Each Sprint
delivers a
releasable
Increment of
product.
The Customer’s Experience
11. 11Gunther Verheyen – Ullizee-Inc, 2016 @Ullizee
Multiple teams delivering product (sticking with the basics)
1. A product has
one Product
Backlog.
2. Multiple
Teams create
integrated
Increments, that
can wrap into
releases.
The Customer’s Experience
12. 12Gunther Verheyen – Ullizee-Inc, 2016 @Ullizee
On your current or latest project:
• Did you deliver an Increment?
–Every Sprint?
• Was it releasable?
–Every Sprint?
What is stopping you?
Does your Scrum Master know? Does
management know?
How Done are you?
13. 13Gunther Verheyen – Ullizee-Inc, 2016 @Ullizee
The definition of Done provides transparency
1. What is the state of the Increment?
2. Is the Increment releasable, i.e. “ready for release”?
14. 14Gunther Verheyen – Ullizee-Inc, 2016 @Ullizee
Raise your hand:
They might have been produced in similar environments, using similar
techniques. Their definitions of “Done” likely reflected very different product
qualities.
Which product had the best definition of Done?
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Development Standards Product Qualities
What are you defining as “Done”?
• Pair programming
• (A)TDD
• Refactoring
• User acceptance testing
• Continuous Integration
– Unit, deployment, build,
integration, regression tests
• Performance testing
• Clean Code base
• Valuable functionality only
• Architectural conventions
respected
• According to
design/style/usability guide
• Documented
• Service levels guaranteed
16. “Done is a crucial part of
Scrum, actually.”
– Key for empirical product delivery
– Foundational for business agility
– The purpose for product people
Source: Gunther Verheyen, “Done is a crucial part of Scrum, actually”
17. 17Gunther Verheyen – Ullizee-Inc, 2016 @Ullizee
What Done requires
• Committed, focused, engaged people
• Team effectiveness through collaboration, autonomy & self-
organization
• Skills (training)
• Engineering practices & standards
• Infrastructure, tooling & automation
• Quality standards & guidelines
• Removal of Impediments
• Elimination of low value
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A Scrum Studio. Your flight control center.
A Scrum Studio is a contained, yet
integrated, part of the organization
where software development fully
employs Scrum
• A physical or a virtual area
• Value over utilization
• Stable product teams
• Tooling and infrastructure
• Facilities and resources
A center of innovative and creative
software and people development.
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Enacting Scrum. Your compass.
People
Commitment
Focus
OpennessRespect
Courage
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Scrum provides a bounded environment to get going
What is stopping you?
• Does your Scrum
Master know?
• Does management
know?
21. Scrum starts with Done.
Let the next 20 years be about
enacting Scrum.
Source: Gunther Verheyen, “The Future Present of Scrum”
22. 22Gunther Verheyen – Ullizee-Inc, 2016 @Ullizee
About
Gunther Verheyen
Independent Scrum caretaker
• eXtreme Programming and Scrum since 2003
• Professional Scrum Trainer
• Shepherded Professional Scrum at Scrum.org
• Co-developed Agility Path, Nexus and the Scaled
Professional Scrum framework at Scrum.org
• Author of “Scrum – A Pocket Guide” and “Scrum
Wegwijzer”
Mail gunther.verheyen@mac.com
Twitter @Ullizee
Blog http://guntherverheyen.com
24. 24Gunther Verheyen – Ullizee-Inc, 2016 @Ullizee
Scrum Guide Update 2016
“When the values of commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect
are embodied and lived by the Scrum Team, the Scrum pillars of
transparency, inspection, and adaptation come to life. The Scrum Team
members learn and explore those values as they work with the Scrum
events, roles and artifacts.
Successful use of Scrum depends on people becoming more proficient in
living these five values. People personally commit to achieving the goals
of the Scrum Team. The Scrum Team members have courage to do the
right thing and work on tough problems. Everyone focuses on the work
of the Sprint and the goals of the Scrum Team. The Scrum Team and its
stakeholders agree to be open about all the work and the challenges
with performing the work. Scrum Team members respect each other to
be capable, independent people.”
More at “There is value in the Scrum Values” (Gunther Verheyen)
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Abstract
Scrum has been around since 1995, for more than two decades. Since the release of the Agile Manifesto in 2001, Scrum gradually become the most applied method for Agile software development. Depending on the source, 70-90% of all Agile teams worldwide say they use Scrum. Scrum has been a key tool for teams and organizations to deal with the increased criticality of software. The primary reason for the success is in the people using Scrum to help them manage and create software products, better.
In a world where the dependence of businesses and society on software has increased even more, can we say we’re Done with Scrum? Or do we have many challenges in implementing Scrum? As complexity and unpredictability continue to increase?
The key for future success is still Scrum – and we are not yet Done with Scrum. The key to employing Scrum professionally is creating Done Increments of product, where “Done” actually means “releasable in production.” This requires professional development, proper practices and standards, cross-functional collaboration, and inner-Sprint feedback loops. It might take another two decades to actually get there.
In his session, Gunther Verheyen explores the system called ‘Scrum’, how it has helped, and how it can continue to help through its core purpose, the creation of Done product in a Sprint, or less.
Gunther is a longtime Scrum professional. Having worked with Scrum.org, shepherding the group’s Professional series and leading its European operations, Gunther is now an independent Scrum caretaker.
Read https://guntherverheyen.com/2016/05/26/the-future-present-of-scrum/
VersionOne, the state of Agile survey.
If only 58% were combining Scrum and XP…
Let’s postpone the celebration a while.
A traveller looking to get his feet back on the ground.
Start with people. Give people a purpose to self-organize against. Give people a professionally fulfilling purpose, a purpose that creates pride. Wirh Scrum that purpose is the creation of a Done version of product, in a Sprint.
Read:
https://guntherverheyen.com/2012/05/02/the-importance-of-done-in-scrum/
https://guntherverheyen.com/2015/05/14/done-is-a-crucial-part-of-scrum-actually/
Many definitions of Done focus only on development activities, where such activities in themselves hold no guarantee on high quality.
About Gunther Verheyen
Gunther Verheyen (gunther.verheyen@mac.com) is a longtime Scrum practitioner. After a career as a consultant, in 2013 he started shepherding the Professional series of Scrum.org, while also leading its European operations. Gunther left Scrum.org in 2016 to further his path as an independent Scrum caretaker.
Gunther ventured into IT and software development after graduating in 1992. His Agile journey started with eXtreme Programming and Scrum in 2003. Years of dedication followed, of using Scrum in diverse circumstances. As from 2010 Gunther became the inspiring force behind some large-scale enterprise transformations.
Gunther left consulting in 2013 to partner with Ken Schwaber, Scrum co-creator, at Scrum.org. He is Professional Scrum Trainer, shepherded the ‘Professional Scrum’ series, worked with Scrum.org’s global network of Professional Scrum Trainers, and is co-creator to Agility Path and the Nexus framework for Scaled Professional Scrum.
Gunther left Scrum.org in 2016 to continue his journey of Scrum as an independent Scrum caretaker.
In 2013 Gunther published the acclaimed book “Scrum – A Pocket Guide (a smart travel companion)”. Ken Schwaber recommends his book as ‘the best description of Scrum currently available’ and ‘an extraordinarily competent book’. In 2016 the Dutch translation of his book was published as “Scrum Wegwijzer (Een kompas voor de bewuste reiziger)”.
When not travelling for Scrum and professionalism, Gunther lives and works in Antwerp (Belgium).
You will know how to contact him for a potentially fruitful collaboration. Contact Gunther at Gunther.verheyen@mac.com. Find Gunther on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ullizee, on Twitter as https://twitter.com/ullizee or read more of his musings on Scrum on his blog, https://guntherverheyen.com/tag/scrum/.
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