1. Taking it to the next level
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“Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives  you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!” Brian Tracy. 1

2. Learning Objectives
Increase productivity, collaboration, and accountability.
Improve the quality of student developed products.

3. Outline For Today Pick roles for the last Sprint of the semester.
Product Owner
Scrum Master
Refine your vision on what makes a great robot
Brainstorm everything you would like to get done on your robot (Product Backlog)
Take the task that will give the highest ROI (Return on Investment) that your team can complete by the end of this Sprint. (1/16/2019) Eight class periods
Put away a chunk of left out parts
Implement your plan!

4. People: Product Owner (Quality Control)
Has a clear vision and expresses it well to the rest of the team.
Represents the client to the team.
Responsible for maintaining the Product Backlog (more on this later)
Helps keep the team focused
Good communicator and motivator.
Maximizes the Return on Investment (ROI) of the team.
Decides when something is ‘Done.’
ROI = Return on Investment
Product Owner: The final word in prioritizing items, Quality Control, Product Manager. (One member from your team, each team member will have an opportunity to be the Product Owner)
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5. People: Scrum Master (Team Leader)
Servant Leader
Conductor of Ceremonies (Meetings)
Daily Scrum
Sprint Planning
Sprint Reviews
Sprint Retrospectives
Monitoring and Tracking
Resolve Impediments/ Conflicts
Shields the Team (from Chickens)
Scrum Master: Represents Management, Servant Leader, responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and implemented. (One member from your team. Each team member will have an opportunity to be the Scrum Master) 5

6. People: Scrum Team
A Scrum Team is a Cross-functional group that is responsible for incrementing (finishing/improving) the product
Scrum Master
Product Owner
All the pigs.
Scrum Team: Cross-functional group that is responsible for incrementing (finishing/improving) the product (Your robotics team)
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7. Select Your Product Owner and Scrum Master
If the teams cannot decide
Product Owner = Person born in the earliest month
Scrum Master = Person born in the latest month
If there is a tie, it is resolved by the third letter of the last name. The lowest letter wins.
If still a tie, Rock – Paper-Scissors, best two out of three
In your engineering journal record today’s date and who will be..
Product Owner
Scrum Master
Scrum Team

8. Scrum Process 1) A Project Begins “We want to build a robot to …”
Time to refine your vision and fill your product backlog
Yesterday
Today
In the Way
Scrum Process
1) A Project Begins “We want to build a robot to …”
5) Sprint Review:
Demonstrate potentially shippable product.
2) Product Owner with help from the team, prioritizes list of tasks into a ‘Product Backlog.’
6) Sprint Retrospective
What went well?
What did not go well?
What changes need to occur?
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3) Scrum Master leads team in the Sprint Planning Meeting to create a Sprint Backlog. A list of top Product Backlog entries that can be completed in the next Sprint. 8

9. Refine what you want your robot to do
After one or more events you have a clearer idea of what is important and what is not important.
Label a page in your Engineering Notebook: Vision Refining 12/12/2018
Use this knowledge to prioritize what you want your robot to do.
Shoot flags from ____
Flip caps in _______ seconds
Climb to high platform in _______ Seconds
Push people off the platforms
Descore Posts
Score in low posts
Score on high posts
Flip and rescore high posts
Score all 9 flags in _____ seconds
Flip all 8 caps in ________ seconds
Score ____________ in autonomous
Score ___________ in Drivers Skills
Score ___________ in programming skills
… Your team fills in any other performance specifications you would like.

10. Determine what you need to do to reach your preferred performance.
Label Page in Engineering Notebook
Scrum Master run this ceremony
Product Backlog 12/12/2018
Fill it with tasks to do to reach your performance goals.
Product Owner be sure the tasks are prirotized.
The more clear you make the tasks, the more efficiently you will be able to complete them.

11. Select what your team can complete this Sprint
Create a new page in the Engineering Notebook called
Scrum Master run this ceremony
Sprint Backlog 12/12/2018 to 1/16/2019
Take the top tasks from the Product Backlog and add them to the Sprint Backlog, until you have filled it with tasks you can complete in the next Sprint

12. Tracking Progress: Scrum Board
To do
Sprint Backlog
Doing
(Tasks)
Done (Tasks)
The Tasks currently in progress.
Prioritized list of tasks the team has committed to complete in this Sprint.
Approved by the Product Owner
Literacy/ Problem Solving
Use your Scrum board to track your progress.

13. Using your Sprint Backlog as a guide
Determine what you intend to accomplish today
Get going.