Introduction to Scrum

Scrum reference card: http://scrumreferencecard.com/

About Scrum

Iteration: Sprint (15-30 days)
Incremental: each iteration produces shippable product with increment

Scrum Framework

Scrum Roles

Product Owner

Maximizing the return on investment (ROI) of the development effort

Make the product vision, customer related

Product backlog, release plan, accept/reject increment

Scrum Development Team

Cross-functional 7-9 members

Self-organizing, self-managing, Intensely collaborative, long-term stable team

Negotiates commitments with the Product Owner

Scrum Master

Helps resolve impediments

Support team about working environment, process, meeting,  promote best practice

Manage artifact, captures data

Enforce timeboxes

No management authority, no decision-making in meeting

Scrum Meetings

Scrum Flow

Sprint Planning Meeting

Attendees: PO + Team

Agenda:

– Select items in Product Backlog

– PO: Prioritize items

– Team: Estimate items

Output: Product Backlog Items (PBI) and sub Tasks

Sprint Planning Meeting output

Daily Scrum and Sprint Execution

Period: daily

Duration: 15 mins

Agenda: What was done previous day. What is issue. What will be done today.

Attendee: Team, may be Scrum Master, PO

Sprint Review Meeting

Attendee: PO, team

Agenda:

– Live demo

– PO: Review committed items, judge Accept/Reject

– PO: Review Product Backlog

Sprint Retrospective Meeting

Attendee: team

The goals are to gain a common understanding of multiple perspectives and to develop actions that will take the team to the next level.

Backlog Refinement Meeting

Agenda:

– Team provide tech info to PO to prioritize items

– Rough estimate size of item, big items (epics) will be split into user story

Scrum Artifacts

Product Backlog: PBI

Sprint Backlog: Sprint Tasks

Sprint Burndown chart

Product Burndown chart

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