Agile Software Development with SCRUM

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13 February 2009

Todays Agenda
Opening: program overview, knowing each other
Understanding Agile and SCRUM
SCRUM simulation
Extra SCRUM topics

We will be having 10-minute breaks each 60-90 minutes.

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About myself
Alexey Krivitsky
Software developer, Agile coach
Certified ScrumMaster
Certified Scrum Practitioner
http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexeykrivitsky
email: alexey@scrumguides.com
skype: alexeykrv
icq: 436-471-64
gsm: +380 50 358 92 12
Currently building up a training center
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Todays Agenda
; Opening: program overview, knowing each other
Understanding Agile and SCRUM
SCRUM simulation
Extra SCRUM topics

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Exercise Continuum

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Project successes/failures

Have you been on a successful project?

Have you been on an unsuccessful project?

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Agile might help you, lets see

Understanding Agile and SCRUM

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The two approaches, two cultures

Predictive approach
Sees projects as predictive processes which results can be
foreseen (predicted) with acceptable probability after
reasonable planning and study efforts spent.

Adaptive approach
Questions predictability of projects due to their built-in
complexity. It puts stress on steering based on observations.

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The predictive approach

Release

Design spec

Requirements spec

Order

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Actual
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The adaptive approach

When in the project we 100% know if we
on/off the track in terms of the time, scope,
costs?

Vision

Actual need

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The two approaches to project management

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Predictive approach

Adaptive approach

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Heavy-weight;
Process-oriented;
Plan-driven;
Waterfall.

Light-weight;
People-oriented;
Value-driven;
Agile.
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Order and Chaos

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The cone of uncertainty

SCRUM decreases the chaos by fixing the scope

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The two approaches on the time scale

Which advantages/disadvantages of
the approaches you see?

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Agile and SCRUM

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SCRUM one of the Agile approaches.

It is a project framework, or a set of
recommendations by following which you can
increase the chance of successful ending of
your projects.

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Agile Manifesto
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
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Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on

the right, we value the items on the left more.

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Principles of Agile Manifesto

Please see www.agilemanifesto.org for the

twelve principles

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Main aspects of Agile

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The main aspects of Agile

Team Work
Prioritization
Short cycles
Learn and Adapt

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The main aspects of Agile: Team work

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What is a team?

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Team work (cont.)

Exercise an airplane factory.

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Push vs. Pull systems

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SCRUM
is a pull system

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Team work (cont.)

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What is a team?

Are you in a good team?

How to become a greater team?

How to evaluate and motivate peoples work

in a team?
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Is here such a thing as team work?

Release

Design spec

Requirements spec

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A SCRUM team is
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A cross-functional group of people

(5-9 members) responsible for managing
itself to develop the product.

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The main aspects of Agile

; Team Work

Prioritization
Short cycles
Learn and Adapt

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Prioritization and Traditional approaches

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An alternative tool to backlogs are

requirement specifications.

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Gimme all requirements, or .

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As a result

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As a result all requirements are the

top priority.

Which is basically the same as not having

the priorities at all.

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And as a result

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What does it mean to us?

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As a consequence: we can cut costs and

duration of our projects in 2/3!

Does it mean we (the teams) will earn less

money?

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What about your projects?

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Think about your current (recent) projects.

List 5-10 features that could have been

avoided or simplified by keeping the product
as good as it was.

What would be your % of rarely/never used

features?
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Prioritize (cont.)
YAGNI - You aint gonna need it.
A strategy of postponing decisions until the last
possible moment.
Product backlog
Just-in-time requirements management tool.

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The menu (Agile) approach

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Product backlog is the projects menu.

Servants help to make better decisions.

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What saves our projects?

The features that we manage to de-scope are

the savers of our projects Kent Beck

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Todays Agenda
; Opening: program overview, knowing each other
Understanding Agile and SCRUM till 16:00
Coffee break 16:00 16:30
SCRUM simulation 16:30 17:30
Extra SCRUM topics 17:30 18:00

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The main aspects of Agile

; Team Work
; Prioritization

Short cycles
Learn and Adapt

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The main aspects of Agile: Short Cycles

The shorter the cycle the more efficient the process

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We have more time to play with the product that

we are developing;

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The sooner we can catch a defect the easier it is to

fix it;

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The shorter the cycle (the smaller a batch of work)

the less need we have in creating intermediate
artifacts.
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The Flip Coins project

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Short Cycles (cont.)

Fail fast () Ken Schwaber

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Iterative and Incremental approach

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How do you eat an elephant?

One bite at a time!

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Shorter Cycles = Faster Feedback

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Daily meetings
Code Reviews
Release to end-users
Iteration reviews
Continuous integration
Feedback from (onsite) clients
Unit-testing
(Automated) acceptance testing
Pair programming
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Shorter Cycles = Faster Feedback (ordered)

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Pair programming (immediate feedback)

Unit-testing (5-10 minutes)
Continuous integration (hourly)
Feedback from (onsite) clients (daily)
Daily meetings (daily)
Code Reviews (some days)
(Automated) acceptance testing (some days)
Iteration reviews (each second week)
Release to end-users (some weeks-months)
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The main aspects of Agile

; Team Work
; Prioritization
; Short cycles

Learn and Adapt

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Exercise Ball Points

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The main aspects of Agile: Learn and Adapt

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As we work we learn lots of new things about

the product being developed, technologies
being used, our clients, ourselves.

By incorporating this information into daily

work we can become better day by day.

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Visibility tools
In order to evolve the way we work we need to
keep everything visible to ourselves and our
clients
Tools that might help:
z Sprint Burndown Chart
z Task boards
z Wikis
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The Sprint Burndown Chart

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The Task Board - an information radiator

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The main aspects of Agile

; Team Work
; Prioritization
; Short cycles
; Learn and Adapt

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Todays Agenda
; Opening: program overview, knowing each other
; Understanding Agile and SCRUM
SCRUM simulation
Extra SCRUM topics

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SCRUM in 59 minutes

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Game structure
Planning
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Choose a product and your PO
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Help your PO to build up a PB
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Help your PO to prioritize the PB items
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Plan your first sprint
Sprinting
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Day one - 7 min
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Daily standup - 3 min
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Day two - 7 min
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Demonstration - 3 min (per a team)
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Todays Agenda
; Opening: program overview, knowing each
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; Understanding Agile and SCRUM
; SCRUM simulation
Extra SCRUM topics
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SCRUM recap
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Roles

Artifacts

Product Backlog
Sprint Backlog
Sprint/Release Burndown Chart

Meetings (ceremonies)

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The Team
ScrumMaster
Product Owner

Sprint Planning
Daily Scrum (Stand-Up)
Sprint Review (Demo)
Retrospective
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Todays Agenda
; Opening: program overview, knowing each other
; Understanding Agile and SCRUM
; SCRUM simulation
; Summary of SCRUM concepts

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