Stephen Forte Chief Strategy Officer Telerik Session Code: WUX310

Session.About(); Short Intro to Scrum Assume you have at least heard of Scrum or Agile Tons of Q&A

Speaker.Bio.ToString(); Chief Strategy Officer of Telerik Certified Scrum Master Active in the Community: International Conference Speaker for 12+ Years RD, MVP and INETA Speaker Co-moderator & founder of NYC.NET Developers Group Wrote a few books: SQL Server 2008 Developers Guide (MS Press) MBA from the City University of New York Past: CTO and co-Founder of Corzen, Inc. (TXV: WAN) CTO of Zagat Survey

Burndown What is Scrum Tech*Ed Daily Scrum Q&A (The fun part)

What is Scrum? Scrum is an agile process that allows us to focus on delivering the highest business value in the shortest time It allows the business to rapidly and repeatedly inspect actual working software Stresses communication What is Scrum?

Characteristics Self-organizing teams Product progresses in a series of month-long (or shorter) “sprints” Requirements are captured as items in a list of “product backlog” No specific engineering practices prescribed Can use any methodology you like

Scrum

Sidebar: Scrum in the Real World Corzen’s Data Engine Development in 2006 Sprint 1: infrastructure Sprint 2: new engine (XML/reflection) Business value: Enabled multiple sites Sprint 3: vertical independent engine Business value: one data engine for all spidering Sprint 4: distributed processing style) Business value: unlimited spidering via cheap VPSes Sprint 5: management (WCF) Business value: thousands of spiders, 1 admin

Product owner Define the features of the product Decide on release date and content Be responsible for the profitability of the product (ROI) Prioritize features according to market value Adjust features and priority every iteration, as needed Accept or reject work results

The ScrumMaster Represents management to the project Responsible for enacting Scrum values and practices Removes impediments Ensure that the team is fully functional and productive Enable close cooperation across all roles and functions Shield the team from external interferences

The team Typically 4-9 people Cross-functional: Programmers, testers, user experience designers, etc. Members should be full-time May be exceptions (DBA) Teams are self-organizing Ideally, no titles but rarely a possibility Membership should change only between sprints

Product backlog The requirements A list of all desired work on the project Ideally expressed such that each item has value to the users or customers of the product Prioritized by the product owner Reprioritized at the start of each sprint This is the product backlog

A sample product backlog Backlog itemEstimate Allow a guest to make a reservation3 As a guest, I want to cancel a reservation.5 As a guest, I want to change the dates of a reservation. 3 As a hotel employee, I can run RevPAR reports (revenue-per-available-room) 8 Improve exception handling

Sprints Scrum projects make progress in a series of “sprints” Analogous to Extreme Programming iterations Typical duration is 2–4 weeks or a calendar month at most A constant duration leads to a better rhythm Product is designed, coded, and tested during the sprint

No changes during a sprint Plan sprint durations around how long you can commit to keeping change out of the sprint Change

Burndown What is Scrum Tech*Ed Daily Scrum Q&A (The fun part)

The daily scrum Parameters Daily minutes Stand-up Not for problem solving Helps avoid other unnecessary meetings Great way to manage remote teams Prevents teams from wasting time

Everyone answers 3 Qs This is not a status meeting What did you do yesterday? 1 1 What will you do today? 2 2 Is anything in your way? 3 3

Sidebar: Scrum and Outsourcing Daily Scrum best way to keep offshore team on target Increases the communication Reduces the red tape Use IM, Skype

Burndown What is Scrum Tech*Ed Daily Scrum Q&A (The fun part)

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A Scrum reading list Books I have read and recomend: Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwaber Agile Software Development with Scrum by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle Scrum and The Enterprise by Ken Schwaber Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn Other books: Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide by Craig Larman Agile Retrospectives by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen Agile Software Development Ecosystems by Jim Highsmith

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