Scrum Notes
- Make the first piece and re-estimate
- Learn as you go
- Make daily short meetings (only who had a need attended)
- Well defined interfaces
- Independent teams
- Detailed problem solving does not happen in the meetings
- Agreement to meet after scrum meeting
- Make only an offer to help
- Team should address and resolve issues
- At the beginning of the process;
- Make scrum meetings in the first sprint to provide guidance, land moral support, share successful experience across teams
SCRUM: its about learning
- Scrum works best, when each developer focuses exclusively on the spring
- A scrum is a team of individuals in Rugby
- each team member playing a well-defined role, and the whole team is focusing on a single goal
- team members must understand his role and the tasks for each increment
- priorities must be clear
How Does Scrum Work?
- There must be an initial planning phase
- During this phase the team must develop an architecture and identify a chief architect
- During development, the team should be prepared to make changes to this architecture, but they need a plan, an architecture and a chief architect at the start
- The chief architect defines a vision based on the architecture and ensures that vision consistency throughout all the development phases
- The architect role should advice and control the developer roles, and communicate closely with the developers.
- After initial planning, a series of short development phases, or sprints, deliver the product incrementally.
- A sprint is 1 to 4 weeks
- A closure phase usually completes product development
- The team tracks all currently identified tasks, capturing them in a list called backlog
- The backlog drives team activity
- Before each sprint, the team updates the backlog and reprioritizes the tasks
- Each team signs up for a number of tasks and then executes a sprint
- Individual team members agree to complete tasks they believe are feasible during each sprint
- The team defines task granularity as appropriate, commonly specifying that a task must be in less than a week (larger tasks are more difficult to define and report)
- During the sprint no changes are allowed from outside the team
What Happens During the Sprint?
- A sprint produces a visible, usable, deliverable that implements one or more user interactions with the system
- The key idea is to deliver valuable functionality
- Each product increments build on previous increments
- The goal is to complete tasks by the sprints delivery date
- The end date of the sprint does not change. Delivered functionality can be reduced during the sprint, but the delivery date can not be changed
- (Usualy) make daily scrum meetings.
- The meetings serve a team building purpose and brings in even remote contributors, making them feel a part of the group and making their work visible to the rest of the team.
How To Plan and Estimte?
- Marketing group or the customer will set the release date
- Development and marketing groups must work together to provide the features with the highest value for the first release
- Marketing should prioritized the features, while the development group provides estimates for the effort
- Marketing and Development must agree on the target set of features
- If development team can not deliver the requested features, the groups must negotiate a reduced set of features.
- After the negotiations the backlog is allocated to sprints in priority order
- Development group establishes the target development environment and determines the risks
- In general risky items are addressed in the early sprints to allow time to recover if, technical difficulties arise.
- Planning proceeds reliably quickly, because the initial assumptions will surely change as sprints deliver incremental functionality
Who Leads the Team?
- The scrum master leads the scrum meetings, identifies the initial backlog to be completed in the sprint.
- Keeps scrum meetings short and focused
- Continual tracking of the delivery of backlog items.
What Happens During a Scrum Meeting?
- Team members must answer these questions:
- what have you completed, relative to the backlog, since the last scrum meeting?
- what obstacles got in your way of completing this work?
- what specific things do you plan to accomplish, relative to the backlog, between now and the next scrum meeting?
- The meetings should last 15-30 minutes, which provides time to address the obstacles, but does not allow time to brainstorm a solution
- All discussions other than responses to three questions is differed to a later meeting, involving only those actually affected by the discussion.
Scrum Meeting Goals:
- Focusing the effort of developers on the backlog items
- Communicating the priorities of backlog items to members
- Keep everyone informed of team progress and obstacles
- Resolve obstacles as quickly as possible
- Tracking progress in delivering the backlog functionality
- Addressing and minimizing product risks.
What Happens at the End of Sprint?
- After each sprint, project teams meet with all stakeholders
- All new information from the sprint just completed is reported, at this meeting anything can be changed, work can be added, eliminated or reprioritized
- Customer input shapes priority setting activities, items that are important to the customer have the highest priority
- New plans and estimate are made, following the same process discussed earlier,
- The organization can make one very important decision at the end of the sprint, whether to continue orıduct development or stop.
- Should this project continue (this is a business decision, and must be made after considering all the technical and marketing issues)
Summary
- The product becomes a series of manageable chunks
- Progress is made even when requirements are not stable
- Everything is visible to everyone,
- Team communication improves
- The team shares success along the way and at the end
- Customers see on time delivery of increments
- Customers obtain frequent feedback on how the product actually works
- A relationship with the customer develops, trust builds and knowledge grows
- A culture is created where everyone expects the project to succeed