Scrum for Project Managers - Welcome to the … for Project Managers Part 1 – 30 Days to Better...
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Scrum for Project Managers Part 1 – 30 Days to Better Agile Webinar Series
Angela Druckman Certified Scrum Trainer & Agile Coach [email protected]
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September 27 - 28, 2012 San Diego Petri Heiramo, CST Certified ScrumMaster
October 08 - 09, 2012 London Adam Weisbart, CST Certified ScrumMaster
October 10 - 11, 2012 San Francisco Petri Heiramo, CST Certified Product Owner
October 16 - 17, 2012 New York Angela Druckman, CST Certified Product Owner
October 16 - 17, 2012 Dallas Jimi Fosdick, CST Certified Product Owner
October 16 - 17, 2012 Washington, DC Michael James, CST Certified ScrumMaster
October 23 - 24, 2012 San Francisco Adam Weisbart, CST Certified ScrumMaster
November 05 - 06, 2012 Portland Adam Weisbart, CST Certified ScrumMaster
November 13 - 14, 2012 San Francisco Angela Druckman, CST Certified Product Owner
November 13 - 14, 2012 Salt Lake City Michael James, CST Certified ScrumMaster
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Angela Druckman is an agile coach and Certified Scrum Trainer. She specializes in Agile Transformation, helping teams and organizations all over the world improve their competitive position and effectiveness through agility. Whether working with tiny start-ups or Fortune 100 companies, Angela’s experience and guidance have helped her clients achieve extraordinary and measurable success with their agile practices. Angela is the author of 30 Days to Better Agile.
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• Scrum in a perfect world
• Project managers and Scrum – a changing role
• Project manager as ScrumMaster
• Project manager as Product Owner
• Project manager supporting the team
• When old habits are hard to break
• How to Get More Information
Overview
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Organizations that successfully
implement Scrum have:
• Teams that self-manage and
collectively take responsibility for
meeting commitments
• Product Owners that understand
and guide product vision through
carefully prioritizing and releasing
features
• Management that supports the
Scrum process and removes
impediments
Given that…
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Not the right question! Instead, we should ask…
Do Scrum Organizations Even Need Project
Managers anymore???
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How Can the Skills Project Managers Have Contribute to an Organization’s Success with
Scrum?
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• Project Managers need to
understand that their role will
change in a Scrum organization,
regardless of whether or not they
are part of a Scrum project
• Today we will examine:
– Unique talents and skills PMs bring to a
Scrum project
– Specific responsibilities and skills that
will need to change
A Changing Role
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• Some typical transitions PM’s make
when their organizations move to
Scrum are to the role of:
– ScrumMaster
– Product Owner
– Project Manager for a Scrum project,
outside the Scrum team
The Project Manager Role Transformed
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“A project manager is the person
accountable for accomplishing
the stated project objectives.
Key project management
responsibilities include creating
clear and attainable project
objectives, building the project
requirements, and managing
the triple constraint for projects,
which is cost, time, and scope .”
- Wikipedia
“The ScrumMaster is responsible for
ensuring that Scrum values,
practices and rules are enacted and
enforced. The ScrumMaster is the
driving force behind all of the Scrum
and helps the Scrum Team and the
organization adopt and use Scrum
to produce a higher quality product.
The ScrumMaster is not the
manager but leads by coaching,
teaching and help(ing) the Team
understand and use self-
management and cross-
functionality.”
- Scrum Alliance Website
Key to success is knowing which PM skills support Scrum and which need to change
Project Manager as ScrumMaster – a Conflict of Interest?
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Project managers are typically held
responsible and rewarded for their
ability to “drive” a project to
successful completion, including:
• Directing staff (aka “making” people
perform work)
• Managing risk
• Clarifying requirements
• Meeting project objectives
• Managing budget
There is just one problem with this…Project Managers are not usually the people doing the actual work!
The Weight of the World on Their Shoulders
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• As a ScrumMaster, the only thing you “make” happen is
the process. You are no longer held solely responsible
for:
– Making and meeting sprint commitments. That responsibility
belongs to the team now
– Meeting project goals, objectives and release schedules. That
responsibility belongs to the Product Owner
– Managing risk. That function is addressed by the Scrum process
itself
People who successfully make the transition from PM to ScrumMaster move from managing people to facilitating
process and organizational change
That Was Then, This is Now
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• The ability to deliver the hard message
– Raising organizational impediments
– Pointing out behavior that does not support Scrum
• Contact with people who can make change
happen
– Deciding how to address impediments
• Reporting
– Helping management get the information they need
about the project
PM’s often have key skills that come in very handy when they move into a ScrumMaster role:
Ace in Your Pocket – the Project Manager Toolbox Applied to the ScrumMaster Role
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• Don’t manage the team – they need to manage
themselves
– The team, not you, must take responsibility for making and
delivering commitments
– This may be a gradual process
• Don’t take responsibility for creating the right product
– the Product Owner needs to own that
– Product backlog maintenance
– Release management
– Product vision
• Don’t let management “shoot the messenger”
– You don’t create the impediments, you just raise them to
management’s attention
Help management understand they cannot judge you by the old yardstick anymore
So What Behaviors Need to Change?
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Key skills PMs can bring to the Product Owner role
include:
– Customer connections
– Ability to articulate
requirements
– Understanding the technical
implications of a decision
– Release planning
– Use of product road maps
Project Manager as Product Owner
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• You don’t “control” the team
– Work with the team to get the info you need to make good decisions
about the product
– Help the team understand your mantra of “No surprises”
• The “iron triangle” doesn’t lie…
– Don’t pressure the team into making commitments they cannot meet
• Stick to agreements about technical quality
– Be aware of the amount of technical debt your system contains and
work with the team to plan how to improve this
• Work with your ScrumMaster to include stakeholders in
meetings (Sprint Review, Story Time meetings, etc) in a
productive way
– Understand that sometimes you have to say “no”
A Former PM Product Owner Needs to Remember:
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• Can be helpful with large projects
• Remember your role – you are a chicken!
• Focus on helping the team remove impediments –
you are a first-line resource here
• Even as a “traditional” PM, your role changes with
Scrum: the team, not you, is responsible for
delivering on commitments
Project Managers supporting a Scrum project can provide an example to other managers of “good Scrum behavior”
Project Managers Outside the Scrum Team
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What to do if a project manager continues old, non-
productive, non-Scrum behaviors?
• Tell him/her! Sometimes we have the hardest time seeing our
own mistakes
• Offer specific suggestions for improvement
– Avoid the “always/never” trap
• Get help from a neutral coach
– Learning via the “blind leading the blind” is very hard
When the New Becomes the Same Old Thing…
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