Giving order to the chaos of agile Presented by Matt Campo CSC 490 Fall 2015

Methodologies Waterfall Spiral Rapid App Development (RAD)

Complexity  NY  LA By plane ○ Centralized control By car ○ Independent decisions

Control  As systems increase in complexity, so does the likelihood that central control will break down.  Necessary to delegate decision-making authority to those closest to the work (i.e. software team)

How it works

Roles  Product Owner  Team  Scrum Master

Scrum Process  Project vision Product owner translates vision into a plan, including Product Backlog  Sprints Time-boxed periods of work Planning, daily standup, demo, retrospective

Scrum Process

Artifacts  Product Backlog  Sprint Backlog  Burndown Chart  Increment of Potentially Shippable Functionaliry

References  Schwaber, Ken ( ). Agile Project Management with Scrum (Developer Best Practices). Pearson Education. Kindle Edition.