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1. What is Scrum? This Stack is based upon the Redistributable Scrum Introduction Stack from the Scrum Alliance This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License Richard Fennell Engineering Director, Black Marble Ltd.

5. Scrum has been used for… Commercial software In-house development Contract development Fixed-price projects Financial applications ISO 9001-certified applications Embedded systems 24x7 systems with 99.999% uptime requirements The Joint Strike Fighter Video game development FDA-approved, life-critical systems Satellite-control software Websites Handheld software Mobile phones Network switching applications ISV applications Some of the largest applications in use

7. The Agile Manifesto a statement of values Source: www.agilemanifesto.org Process and tools Individuals and interactions over Following a plan Responding to change over Comprehensive documentation Working software over Contract negotiation Customer collaboration over

8. Project Noise Level Complex Close to Certainty Far from Certainty Technology Close to Agreement Far from Agreement Requirements Source: Strategic Management and Organizational Dynamics by Ralph Stacey in Agile Software Development with Scrum by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle.

9. Scrum Process Overview 10 - 30 days 24 hours Product Backlog As prioritized by Product Owner Sprint Backlog Backlog tasks expanded by team Potentially Shippable Product Increment Daily Scrum Meeting Source: Adapted from Agile Software Development with Scrum by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle.

11. Sequential vs. overlapping development Source: “The New New Product Development Game” by Takeuchi and Nonaka. Harvard Business Review, January 1986. Rather than doing all of one thing at a time... ...Scrum teams do a little of everything all the time Requirements Design Code Test

18. story A chicken and a pig are.... … together when the chicken says, "Let's start a restaurant!". The pig thinks it over and says, "What would we call this restaurant?". The chicken says, "Ham n' Eggs!". The pig says, "No thanks, I'd be committed, but you'd only be involved!". This is the ethos for a Scum team, they are pigs, their neck is on the line in what they have committed to doing. Everyone else is a Chicken, they might be interested in the project but their job is not on the line

29. A sample product backlog Priority Backlog item Story Point Estimate 1 Allow a guest to make a reservation 3 2 As a guest, I want to cancel a reservation. 5 3 As a guest, I want to change the dates of a reservation. 3 4 As a hotel employee, I can run RevPAR reports (revenue-per-available-room) 8 5 Improve exception handling 8 6 ... 30

32. A sprint backlog Tasks Code the user interface Code the middle tier Test the middle tier Write online help Write the foo class Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri

33. A sprint burndown chart Hours

34. Hours 40 30 20 10 0 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Tasks Code the user interface Code the middle tier Test the middle tier Write online help Mon 8 16 8 12 Tues Wed Thur Fri 50

37. Scaling through the Scrum of scrums

38. Scrum of scrums of scrums

42. demo eScrum