Lightening Talk: definition of ready
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Definition of READY When are you able to start?
Agile Eastern Europe 2011, Kiev,
September 2011 Felix Rüssel
Creating Value & Problem in Sprints
How Value is created
Understand WHY and WHAT to do
Have a clue HOW it be can
It CAN be done (READY!)
It is being DONE
It is really DONE
And it is required
So it creates Value
Usual Problems in Sprints No clear description, criteria,
goals Not possble to test/evaluate if
goal has been met Missing Dates
(suprise!surpise!)
Risiks unknown Dependencies: Teams, external
stakeholders, technical constrains, …
Owner (business sponsor) unknown
READY & DONE on the Scrum Board
Sprint Planning
Acceptance Testing (PO)
REA
DY
Release Development Reviewed
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READY & DONE
REA
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PBL SBL Increment
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DoR IBL DoD
READY as Quality Gate
READY as pre-condition for „Hyperproductivity“
Responsible: Product Owner May delegate work to make stories READY
Team: Has right during Planning to refuse to commit on stories that are not READY
Scrum Master enforces rules Helps PO to increase the rate of READY stories
Scrum Master interferes when non-READY stories are discussed in a wild manner.
How Product Backlog should look like
Current Sprint (Stories, Tasks)
READY (Stories)
Preparing (Epics -> Stories)
NEW
(Ideas, Epics, Themes)
How it becomes READY
Sprint Planning
REA
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Story Story
Details Details Details, Details, Details
Details
Epic
Story Story
Story
Story
Story
Story Template
Add Details
Discuss! Discuss! Discuss!
Source:
http://agile2009.org/files/session_pdfs/Going%20from%20Goo
d%20to%20Great%20with%20Scrum%20Session.PDF
Results & Rate of Adoption
Impact of READY on effort / variance
Definition of Ready / READY State Discussion started on conferences:
Beginnig 2009 Adoption rate still very low
Results of a small research Mailinglist „scrumdevelopment“
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment
„definition of done“: 1001
„definition of ready“: 6 „ready state“: 14
WHO?
Felix Rüssel Consultant for agile Methods, project management and
virtual teams www.agile-rescue.com
Nearshore Scrum Teams www.agile-nearshoring.com
Agile methods since 2004 German Blog (~2008): www.armerkater.de