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Sprint Backlog Considered Harmful Jesse Fewell, PMP, CST, IGQI Advanced Pattern and Paradoxes of Scrum
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Sprint Backlog Considered Harmful
Jesse Fewell, PMP, CST, IGQI
Advanced Pattern and Paradoxes of Scrum
Clients
Jesse Fewell
Founder, PMI Agile Community of Practice
Co-Creator, PMI-ACP℠ Agile Certification
Co-Author, Software Extension to PMBOK® Guide
Countries
Certifications
Jesse Fewell
Enterprise Agility Coach
Founder of PMI Agile Community of Practice
Senior Advisor, PMI-ACP℠ Agile Certification
Steering Committee, Software Extension to PMBOK® Guide
Certified Scrum Trainer & Innovation Games Qualified Instructor
Agenda
• Assume you “know” Scrum
Intermediate Level Talk
• Why it works
Patterns
• Things we know are a problem, but are too afraid to say so
Paradoxes
Recursive Patterns
1. Recursive Planning
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Product Burndown
Product Backlog
PO
1. Recursive Planning
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Product Burndown
Product Backlog Sprint Backlog
Sprint Burndown
TeamPO
1. Recursive Planning
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Product Burndown
Product Backlog Sprint Backlog
Sprint Burndown
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Impediments
Waste Burndown
Team SMPO
2. Recursive Relationships
SM
Team
2. Recursive Relationships
SM
Team
PO
2. Recursive Relationships
SM
Team
Stakeholders
PO
2. Recursive Relationships
SM
Team
Stakeholders
PO
CEO
2. Recursive Relationships
SM
Team
Stakeholders
PO
CEO
Shareholders
3. Recursive Learning
3. Recursive Learning
3. Recursive Learning
Scientific Method
Hypothesis
Experiment
Analysis
Conclusion
Deming Cycle: PDCA
Plan
Do
Check
Act
Six Sigma: DMAIC
Define
Measure
Analyze
Improve/Control
Scrum
Plan
Work
Review
Retrospect
3. Recursive Learning
Scientific Method
Hypothesis
Experiment
Analysis
Conclusion
Deming Cycle: PDCA
Plan
Do
Check
Act
Six Sigma: DMAIC
Define
Measure
Analyze
Improve/Control
Scrum
Plan
Work
Review
Retrospect
3. Recursive Learning
Scientific Method
Hypothesis
Experiment
Analysis
Conclusion
Deming Cycle: PDCA
Plan
Do
Check
Act
Six Sigma: DMAIC
Define
Measure
Analyze
Improve/Control
Scrum
Plan
Work
Review
Retrospect
4. Recursive Accountability
4. Recursive AccountabilityTEAM
MEMBER: Day
What did you do
yesterday?
What do you commit today?
What is in your way?
4. Recursive AccountabilityTEAM
MEMBER: Day
What did you do
yesterday?
What do you commit today?
What is in your way?
TEAM: Sprint
Sprint Review
Sprint Planning
Sprint Retrospectiv
e
4. Recursive AccountabilityTEAM
MEMBER: Day
What did you do
yesterday?
What do you commit today?
What is in your way?
TEAM: Sprint
Sprint Review
Sprint Planning
Sprint Retrospectiv
e
PO:Release
Release
Release Planning
Release Retrospectiv
e
Paradoxes
1. Focus on Sprint Backlog
PBIs = 4Tasks = 94
1. Focus on Sprint Backlog
TEAM MEMBER:“But I achieved all my committed tasks”
SPRINTFAILED
PBIs = 4Tasks = 94
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 80
5
10
15
20
25
Days In Sprint
PBIs
1. Focus on Sprint Backlog
PBIs = 21Tasks = 0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 80
5
10
15
20
25
Days In Sprint
PBIs
1. Focus on Sprint BacklogSPRINTSUCCESS
PBIs = 21Tasks = 0
TEAM MEMBER:“We don’t need the overhead of a Sprint Backlog”
2. “There are no titles on Teams, and there are no exceptions to this rule.”
Team
2. “There are no titles on Teams, and there are no exceptions to this rule.”
Team
Product Owner
ScrumMaster
2. “There are no titles on Teams, and there are no exceptions to this rule.”
Team
Product Owner
ScrumMaster
“I’m the Product Owner””No, I am”
“No you’re not, I am”
“Some of us are more equal than others”
3. Self Organizing
Quality
3. Self Organizing
Empowered to ignore the Product Owner?Quality
Process
3. Self Organizing
Empowered to ignore the Product Owner?Quality
Empowered to ignore the ScrumMaster?Process
4. Managers
4. Managers
I want Agile
We want Scrum
4. Managers
I want Agile
We want Scrum
Um..what about me?
Questions?
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