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State of Scrum

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Scrum - Empirical

Start with Goals and some priority requirements

End with Goals met

Start with plan

End with all done, on the date and for the cost planned.

Based on degree of complexity, planning horizon is reduced to one Sprint. This increases predictability and reduces risk.

Waterfall - Predictive

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SCRUM FRAMEWORK

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2002 - in response to the Agile Manifesto, Barry Boehm was quoted as saying, “Agile is an excellent approach is you have a small team of highly skilled developers managing themselves in a co-located workplace with great engineering tools and practices. They will produce great products.

It turns out that you can use Agile with a large team of terrible developers who are dispersed all over the globe, who are using lousy tools and practices. They will produce crap.

The point isn’t whether they produce great stuff or crap, the point is that the problem is transparent. Then the question is: what are you going to do about it?


8“There's a mess I've heard about with quite a few projects recently. It works out like this:

• They want to use an agile process, and pick Scrum• They adopt the Scrum practices, and maybe even the principles• After a while progress is slow because the code base is a mess

What's happened is that they haven't paid enough attention to the internal quality of their software. If you make that mistake you'll soon find your productivity dragged down because it's much harder to add new features than you'd like. You've taken on a crippling TechnicalDebt and your scrum has gone weak at the knees. (And if you've been in a real scrum, you'll know that's a Bad Thing.)

I've mentioned Scrum because when we see this problem, Scrum seems to be particularly common as the nominative process the team is following. For many people, this situation is exacerbated by Scrum because Scrum is process that's centered on project management techniques and deliberately omits any technical practices, in contrast to (for example) Extreme Programming.

I'm sure that the many Flaccid Scrum projects being run will harm Scrum's reputation, and probably the broader agile reputation as well.”

-- MARTIN FOWLER, JANUARY 2009

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html


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“BY EARLY 2009, … MORE ORGANIZATIONS WERE USING AGILE PROCESSES THAN WATERFALL PROCESSES … HOWEVER, LESS THAN 50% OF THOSE USING SCRUM WERE DEVELOPING IN INCREMENTAL ITERATIONS, WHICH ARE THE HEARTBEAT OF SCRUM.

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ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES OF USING SCRUM HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE STEEP LEARNING CURVE FOR THE DEVELOPERS ON THE SCRUM TEAM.”

-- JEFF SUTHERLAND, KEN SCHWABER, MÄRCH 2010


Plan

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ReviewP

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UndoneUndone

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Planning P D SDevelopment Stabilization

Scrum Project with complete, integrated “done”

Scrum project with incomplete or variable “done”

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Stabilization is when you do all the “undone” work

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Time

Defectsin Release

Release 1

• 120 people, 18 Scrum teams• Release 1 : Each team produced “done” increments each Sprint, but they were

not integrated or integration tested until “code complete.”• Release 2: All teams produced an increment of integrated, integration tested

code every Sprint.

Planned Release Date

Release 2

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14“The Scrum community needs to redouble its efforts to ensure that people understand the importance of strong technical practices. Certainly any kind of project review should include examining what kinds of technical practices are present. If you're involved or connected to such a project, make a fuss if the technical side is being neglected.”

Martin Fowler, 1/29/09


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Problem InitiativesFlaccid ScrumLess than 50% of Scrum users reported using Iterative, Incremental techniques

Scrum Developer programScrum Master program

Certifications were meaningless and in violation of USPTO trademarks rules

Open assessments based on bodies of knowledge leading to certification

Uneven quality of training by Scrum Trainers

Student assessment scores and evaluations tracked for each trainer

Opaque organization left ScrumAlliance, formed Scrum.org

Scrum Alliance trainers viewed as privileged franchises

More and different types of trainers


Offer Training

Work with experts in various technologies and fields to create a deliver courses that meet the needs of the software

development profession. Continuously monitor

quality.

Assess Knowledge

Offer rigorous assessments to allow

people to evaluate their abilities so they are able to improve.

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Maintain Scrum

Create and maintain bodies of knowledge on which to train and assess people for the

betterment of software

development.

Improving the Profession of Software Development


We produce programs with partners to fill the black holes in Scrum.

We recruit, train and monitor trainers for the courseware in these programs.

Developer and Publisher of Training Programs

bodies of knowledgeCourseWare

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PROFESSIONAL SCRUM DEVELOPER

TO FIND INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROGRAMS AND COURSES GO TOWWW.SCRUM.ORG

1. HOW TO WORK TOGETHER AS A CROSS-FUNCTIONAL SELF-ORGANIZING TEAM,2. USING MODERN ENGINEERING PRACTICES,3. ON A MODERN DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGY STACK,4. TO BUILD A “DONE” INCREMENT WITHIN AN ITERATION.

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Practices

VS 2010

Scrum

To find information about the Programs and courses go to www.scrum.org

The official Microsoft training for Visual Studio 2010

Teaches VS2010 and best practices, all within the Scrum frameworkRecognizes that software development today is different than it was 10 years ago. Goes beyond traditional “tool-only” courses to also teach best practices, and how to develop on a x-functional team using Scrum.

Being delivered with the NEW Scrum Process Template

The Microsoft developed Scrum Process Template for VS2010 is the most faithful to Scrum process template available. Will be available on MSDN in June 2010.




10Characteristic Scrum.org PSDLength 5 daysHow many individual courses 1

Program integrity Teamwork, technology, engineering, and Scrum practices woven together into the same course with case studies and exercises

Instructors Microsoft MVPs, Microsoft Inner Circle Partners, skilled in Scrum and software development

Team based training YesAssessment YesCertification 90% score on assessmentTrainer quality control Course and student evaluations and assessment

averages Courseware Standard courseware that is regularly revised

and updated Cost MSRP $3,995 USD


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1.Start2.Initiation

2.1.Form team2.2.Course overview2.3.Case study overview2.4.IDE overview2.5.Scrum overview

3.Develop product

4.Retrospective

Case studyproduct backlog

Engineering practices

IDE technology stack

Course StructureTeams iteratively build increments while learning more

Scrum, teamwork, engineering techniques, and tooling each Sprint. They are allowed to fail and learn.


1. Help individuals assess their knowledge.

2. Certify those with adequate knowledge.

3. Help people find the best training courses.

4. Maintain radar charts of overall knowledge

Assessor of Knowledge

bodies of knowledgeCourseWareassessments

classes

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14Scrum Body of Knowledge

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Radar Chart for Software Development Competency Assessment

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Fundamental Knowledge of Scrum Development Questions

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Fundamental Knowledge of Scrum Development Questions (.NET)

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